Job 13
1 Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it.
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2 I knowe also as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto you.
What ye know, do I know also; I am not inferior unto you.
3 But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.
Notwithstanding 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 plasterers 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!
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! 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 Him favour? 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?
Would it be good that He should search you out? Or as one mocketh a man, will ye mock Him?
10 He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly accept any person.
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly show favour.
11 Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?
Shall not His majesty terrify you, and His dread fall upon you?
12 Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.
Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, your eminences to eminences of clay.
13 Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.
Hold your peace, 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?
Wherefore? I will 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.
Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him; but I will argue 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 hypocrite cannot 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 ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19 Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.
Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and die.
20 But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.
Only do not two things unto me, then will I not hide myself from Thee:
21 Withdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide.
Withdraw Thy hand far from me; and let not Thy terror 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 mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?
Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and holdest me for Thine enemy?
25 Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and from? and wilt thou pursue the drie 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 possesse the iniquities of my youth.
That Thou shouldest 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 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 Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.
Though I am like a wine-skin that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
