Job 13
1 Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it.
Lo, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
2 I knowe also as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto you.
What ye know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
3 But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4 For in deede ye forge lyes, and all you are physitions of no value.
But ye are forgers of lies. Ye are all physicians of no value.
5 Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!
O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be your wisdom.
6 Nowe heare my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments of my lips.
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Will ye speake wickedly for Gods defence, and talke deceitfully for his cause?
Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
8 Will ye accept his person? or will ye contende for God?
Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God?
9 Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as deceiving a man, will ye deceive him?
10 He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly accept any person.
He will surely reprove you if ye secretly show partiality.
11 Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?
Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?
12 Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
13 Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.
Be quiet. Let me alone that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
14 Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soule in mine hande?
Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
15 Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.
Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.
16 He shalbe my saluation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him.
This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before him.
17 Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke.
Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.
18 Beholde nowe: if I prepare me to iudgement, I knowe that I shalbe iustified.
Behold now, I have set my case in order. I know that I am righteous.
19 Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.
Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would keep silent and give up the spirit.
20 But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.
Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from thy face:
21 Withdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide.
Withdraw thy hand far from me, and do not let thy dread make me afraid.
22 Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.
Then call thou, and I will answer, or let me speak, and answer thou me.
23 Howe many are mine iniquities and sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne.
How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?
Why do thou hide thy face, and reckon me for thine enemy?
25 Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and from? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?
Will thou harass a driven leaf? And will thou pursue the dry stubble?
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth.
For thou write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.
27 Thou puttest my feete also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in ye heeles of my feet.
Thou also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. Thou set a bound to the soles of my feet.
28 Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.
Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
