6   Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
shama`⁸⁰⁸⁵ towkechah⁸⁴³³ qashab⁷¹⁸¹ riyb⁷³⁷⁹ saphah⁸¹⁹³

7   Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
dabar¹⁶⁹⁶ `evel⁵⁷⁶⁶ 'el⁴¹⁰ dabar¹⁶⁹⁶ rmiyah⁷⁴²³

8   Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
nasa'⁵³⁷⁵ paniym⁶⁴⁴⁰ riyb⁷³⁷⁸ 'el⁴¹⁰

9   Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
towb²⁸⁹⁵ chaqar²⁷¹³ hathal²⁰⁴⁸ 'enowsh⁵⁸² hathal²⁰⁴⁸

10   He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
yakach³¹⁹⁸ yakach³¹⁹⁸ cether⁵⁶⁴³ nasa'⁵³⁷⁵ paniym⁶⁴⁴⁰

11   Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
s'eth⁷⁶¹³ ba`ath¹²⁰⁴ pachad⁶³⁴³ naphal⁵³⁰⁷

12   Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
zikrown²¹⁴⁶ mashal⁴⁹¹² 'epher⁶⁶⁵ gab¹³⁵⁴ gab¹³⁵⁴ chomer²⁵⁶³

13   Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
charash²⁷⁹⁰ dabar¹⁶⁹⁶ `abar⁵⁶⁷⁴

14   Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
nasa'⁵³⁷⁵ basar¹³²⁰ shen⁸¹²⁷ suwm⁷⁷⁶⁰ nephesh⁵³¹⁵ kaph³⁷⁰⁹