看哪，这一切我眼都见过，我耳都听过，而且明白。
Indeed, my eye has seen all this; / My ear has heard and understood it.

你们所知道的，我也知道；我并非不及你们。
What you know, I also know; / I am not inferior to you.

但我要对全能者说话，我愿与神理论。
But I would speak to the Almighty, / And I desire to argue with God.

你们却是以谎言遮饰的，都是无用的医生。
Yet you are plasterers of lies; / Physicians of no value are you all.

惟愿你们全然不作声，这就成为你们的智慧！
Oh that you would be altogether silent, / And this would be your wisdom!

请你们听我的辩论，留心听我嘴唇的分诉。
Hear now my argument, / And hearken to the contentions of my lips.

你们要为神说不义的话么？要为祂说诡诈的言语么？
Will you speak wrongly for God / And speak deceitfully for Him?

你们要徇神的情面么？要为祂争论么？
Will you be partial to Him? / Will you contend for God?

祂查出你们来，这岂是好么？人欺哄人，你们也要照样欺哄祂么？
Will it be well with you when He searches you out? / Or will you deceive Him as one might deceive a man?

你们若暗中徇情面，祂必要责备你们。
He will surely reprove you / If you are secretly partial.

祂的尊荣，岂不叫你们惧怕么？祂的惊吓，岂不落在你们身上么？
Will not His majesty make you afraid / And His dread fall on you?

你们所记念的言语，是炉灰的箴言；你们的辩护，是淤泥的辩护。
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes; / Your defenses are defenses of clay.

你们不要作声，任凭我吧，让我说话；无论什么，就任它临到吧。
Be silent before me, and I myself will speak; / And let come on me what may.

我要把我的肉叼在牙上，将我的命放在手中。
I will take my flesh in my teeth / And put my life in my hand.

看哪，祂必杀我；我没有指望了。然而我在祂面前还要辩明我的道路。
Indeed, He will kill me; I have no hope. / Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him.

这也要成为我的拯救，因为不虔敬的人不得到祂面前。
This also will be my salvation, / That no profane man may come before Him.

你们要细听我的言语，使我所宣告的，入你们的耳中。
Hear carefully my words, / And let my declaration be in your ears.

看哪，我已陈明我的案件，知道自己必蒙表白。
Here now, I have arranged my case; / I know that I will be vindicated.

有谁与我争论？若有，我就情愿缄默不言，气绝而亡。
Who will contend with me? / For then I would be silent and die.

惟有两件，不要向我施行，我就不躲开你的面；
Only do not do two things to me, / Then I will not hide from Your face:

就是把你的手缩回，远离我身；又不使你的可畏威吓我。
Withdraw Your hand far from me, / And do not let Your terror frighten me.

这样，你呼叫，我就回答；或是让我说话，你回答我。
Then call, and I will answer; / Or let me speak, and You respond to me.

我的罪孽和罪行有多少？求你叫我知道我的过犯与我的罪。
How many are my iniquities and sins? / Make my transgression and my sin known to me.

你为何掩面，把我当作仇敌？
Why do You hide Your face / And consider me as Your enemy?

你要惊动被风吹的叶子，追赶枯干的碎秸么？
Will You harass a driven leaf / And pursue dry chaff?

你写下苦毒的事攻击我，又使我承当幼年的罪孽；
For You write bitter things against me / And cause me to inherit the iniquities of my youth;

也把我的脚上了木狗，并察看我一切的道路，为我的脚掌划定界限。
And You put my feet in stocks / And watch all my paths; / You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

我像销毁的朽烂之物，像虫蛀的衣裳。
And such a one is like some rotten thing that wastes away, / Like a garment eaten by moths.