Job 13
1 Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it.
Behold my eye hath seen all these things, and my ear hath heard them, and I have understood them all.
2 I knowe also as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto you.
According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you.
3 But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.
But yet I will 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.
Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.
5 Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!
And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.
6 Nowe heare my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments of my lips.
Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my lips.
7 Will ye speake wickedly for Gods defence, and talke deceitfully for his cause?
Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?
8 Will ye accept his person? or will ye contende for God?
Do you accept his person, and do you endeavour to judge 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?
Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings?
10 He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly accept any person.
He shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person.
11 Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?
As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you.
12 Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.
Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.
13 Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.
Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.
14 Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soule in mine hande?
Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?
15 Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.
Although he should bill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.
16 He shalbe my saluation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him.
And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before his presence.
17 Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke.
Hear ye my speech, and receive with Sour ears hidden truths.
18 Beholde nowe: if I prepare me to iudgement, I knowe that I shalbe iustified.
If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.
19 Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.
Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?
20 But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.
Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not be hid:
21 Withdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide.
Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me.
22 Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.
Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer 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 know my crimes and offences.
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?
Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?
25 Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and from? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?
Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth.
For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me for the sins 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 hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:
28 Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.
Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is moth-eaten.
