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