Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? {vain...: Heb. words of wind}

How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

How hast thou helped {him that is} without power? {how} savest thou the arm {that hath} no strength?

But ye {are} forgers of lies, ye {are} all physicians of no value.

{Are there} not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? {continue: Heb. lodge}

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, {are} in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred {by} all {that is} before them. {I considered...: Heb. I gave, or, set to my heart}

For ye say, Where {is} the house of the prince? and where {are} the dwelling places of the wicked? {the dwelling...: Heb. the tent of the tabernacles}

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just {men}, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked {men}, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also {is} vanity.