[1] Lo! mine eye, saith Job, hath seen all things, and mine ear hath heard (it all); and I understood all things.
[2] Even with your knowing, (that) also I know, and I am not lower than ye. (What you know, I also know, and I am not lower than ye.)
[3] But nevertheless I shall speak to Almighty God, and I covet to dispute with God (or and I desire to dispute with God);
[4] and first I (shall) show you (to be) makers of lies, and lovers/favourers of wayward teachings. (but first I shall show you to be liars, and lovers of wayward teaching.)
[5] And I would, that ye were still, that ye were guessed to be wise men. (And I wish, that ye held your peace, so that ye could be thought to be wise.)
[6] Therefore hear ye my chastisings; and perceive ye the doom of my lips. (And so hear ye my arguments; and understand ye the judgement from my lips.)
[7] Whether God hath need to your leasing, that ye speak guileful things for him? (Hath God a need for your lies, so that ye speak these guileful things for him?)
[8] Whether ye take his face, and enforce to deem for God? (Do ye take his place, and endeavour to judge for God?)
[9] Either it shall please him, from whom nothing may be hid? Whether he, as a man, shall be deceived by your falsenesses? (or Shall he, like a man, be deceived by your falseness, or your duplicity?)
[10] He shall reprove you; for ye take his face in huddles. (He shall rebuke you, if ye secretly accuse me, and judge me.)
[11] Anon as he shall stir him, he shall trouble you; and his dread shall fall upon you. (At once he shall stir himself, and he shall trouble you; and the fear of him, or his terror, shall come upon you.)
[12] Your mind shall be comparisoned to ashes; and your nolls shall be driven down into (the) clay.
[13] Be ye still a little, that I speak (or so that I can speak), whatever thing my mind hath showed to me.
[14] Why rend I my flesh with my teeth, and bear my life in mine hands?
[15] Yea, though God slay me, I shall hope in him; nevertheless I shall prove my ways in his sight. (Yea, even if God shall kill me, I shall still hope, or trust, in him; and I shall still argue my case before him.)
[16] And he shall be my saviour; for why each hypocrite shall not come in his sight (or for no hypocrite shall ever come before him).
[17] Hear ye my word, and perceive ye with [your] ears (my) dark and hard privy speeches/(my) dark and hard figurative speeches. (Hear ye my voice, and perceive ye with your ears, my words of explanation.)
[18] If I shall be deemed, I know that I shall be found just. (If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be justified, or found acquitted.)
[19] Who is he that is deemed with me? Come he; why am I still, and am wasted? (Who is he who is judged with me? Come he; for if I hold my peace, I shall be destroyed.)
[20] Do thou not to me two things only; and then I shall not be hid from thy face. (Do thou only two things for me; and then I shall not hide from thy face.)
[21] Make thine hand far from me; and thy dread make not me afeared. (Take thy hand far away from me; and do not let my fear of thee make me afraid.)
[22] Call thou me, and I shall answer thee; either certainly I shall speak, and (then) thou shalt answer me.
[23] How great sins and wickednesses have I? (or How many sins and wickednesses have I?) Show thou to me my felonies, and my trespasses.
[24] Why hidest thou thy face, and deemest me thine enemy?
[25] Thou showest thy might against a leaf, that is ravished away with the wind; and thou pursuest dry stubble.
[26] For thou writest bitternesses against me; and wilt waste me with the sins of my young waxing age. (For thou writest bitter charges against me; and wilt destroy me for the sins of my youth.)
[27] Thou hast set my foot in a stock (or Thou hast set my feet in the stocks), and thou hast kept (watch over) all my paths; and thou hast beheld the steps of my feet.
[28] And I shall be wasted as rot, and as a cloth, that is eaten of a moth. (And I shall be wasted by rot, and like a cloak, that is eaten by a moth.)