Job 13
1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2 What ye know, I know also: I am not inferior to you.
What ye know, do I know also; I am not inferior unto you.
3 But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with God;
Notwithstanding I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4 For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
But ye are plasterers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5 Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom.
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it would be your wisdom.
6 Hear now my defence, 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 for him speak deceit?
Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for Him?
8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Will ye show Him favour? Will ye contend for God?
9 Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?
Would it be good that He should search you out? Or as one mocketh a man, will ye mock Him?
10 He will certainly reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly show favour.
11 Shall not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?
Shall not His majesty terrify you, and His dread fall upon you?
12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, your eminences to eminences of clay.
13 Hold your peace from me, and I will 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 Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
Wherefore? I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
15 Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him.
Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him; but I will argue my ways before Him.
16 This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face.
This also shall be my salvation, that a hypocrite cannot come before Him.
17 Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears.
Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.
18 Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19 Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.
Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and die.
20 Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee.
Only do not two things unto me, then will I not hide myself from Thee:
21 Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid:
Withdraw Thy hand far from me; and let not Thy terror make me afraid.
22 Then call, and I will answer; or I will speak, and answer thou me.
Then call Thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer Thou me.
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24 Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?
Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and holdest me for Thine enemy?
25 Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth;
That Thou shouldest write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.
27 And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; —
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; Thou drawest Thee a line about the soles of my feet;
28 One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.
Though I am like a wine-skin that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
