Job Chapter 13 Back Next{13:1} "Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
{13:2} What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
{13:3} "Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
{13:4} But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
{13:5} Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
{13:6} Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
{13:7} Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
{13:8} Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
{13:9} Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
{13:10} He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.
{13:11} Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?
{13:12} Your memorable sayings are proverbs of
ashes, Your defenses are defenses of
clay.
{13:13} "Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
{13:14} Why should I take my
flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
{13:15} Behold, he will kill me. I have no
hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
{13:16} This also shall be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.
{13:17} Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.
{13:18} See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
{13:19} Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
{13:20} "Only don't do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face:
{13:21} withdraw your hand far from me; and don't let your terror make me afraid.
{13:22} Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me.
{13:23} How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
{13:24} Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
{13:25} Will you harass a driven
leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
{13:26} For you write
bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
{13:27} You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
{13:28} though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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