³ Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

² Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

³ Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?

⁴ What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?

¹⁷ What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

¹⁸ And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?

¹⁹ If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

²⁰ Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.

³² For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

²⁵ Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

²⁷ And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;

¹⁹ Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God: