Job 13

1Lo, mine eye hath seen all {this}, mine ear hath heard and understood it.● 2What ye know, {the same} do I know also: I {am} not inferior unto you.● 3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.● 4But ye {are} forgers of lies, ye {are} all physicians of no value.● 5O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.● 6Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.● 7Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?● 8Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?● 9Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye {so} mock him?● 10He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.● 11Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?● 12Your remembrances {are} like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.● 13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what {will}. {Hold...: Heb. Be silent from me}● 14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?● 15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. {maintain: Heb. prove, or, argue}● 16He also {shall be} my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.● 17Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.● 18Behold now, I have ordered {my} cause; I know that I shall be justified.● 19Who {is} he {that} will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.● 20Only do not two {things} unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.● 21Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.● 22Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.● 23How many {are} mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.● 24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?● 25Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?● 26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.● 27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. {lookest...: Heb. observest} {heels: Heb. roots}● 28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.●