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13:1  All this my eye has seen; my ear has heard and perceived it.
13:2  What you know, I also know; I do not fall short of you.
13:3  But I would speak with the Almighty; I want to argue with God.
13:4  But you gloss over falsehoods, you are worthless physicians, every one of you!
13:5  Oh, that you would be altogether silent; that for you would be wisdom!
13:6  Hear now my argument and listen to the accusations from my lips.
13:7  Is it for God that you speak falsehood? Is it for him that you utter deceit?
13:8  Is it for him that you show partiality? Do you make accusations on behalf of God?
13:9  Will it be well when he shall search you out? Can you deceive him as you do a mere human being?
13:10  He will openly rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.
13:11  Surely his majesty will frighten you and dread of him fall upon you.
13:12  Your reminders are ashy maxims, your fabrications mounds of clay.
13:13  Be silent! Let me alone that I may speak, no matter what happens to me.
13:14  I will carry my flesh between my teeth, and take my life in my hand.
13:15  Slay me though he might, I will wait for him; I will defend my conduct before him.
13:16  This shall be my salvation: no impious man can come into his presence.
13:17  Pay close attention to my speech, give my statement a hearing.
13:18  Behold, I have prepared my case, I know that I am in the right.
13:19  If anyone can make a case against me, then I shall be silent and expire.
13:20  Two things only do not use against me, then from your presence I need not hide:
13:21  Withdraw your hand far from me, do not let the terror of you frighten me.
13:22  Then call me, and I will respond; or let me speak first, and answer me.
13:23  What are my faults and my sins? My misdeed, my sin make known to me!
13:24  Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?
13:25  Will you harass a wind-driven leaf or pursue a withered straw?
13:26  For you draw up bitter indictments against me, and punish in me the faults of my youth.
13:27  You put my feet in the stocks; you watch all my paths and trace out all my footsteps,
13:28  Though I wear out like a leather bottle, like a garment the moth has consumed.