Job 13
1 Behold, mine eye has seen these things, and mine ear has heard [them].
Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it.
2 And I know all that you too know; and I have not less understanding than you.
I knowe also as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto you.
3 Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will.
But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.
4 But you are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases.
For in deede ye forge lyes, and all you are physitions of no value.
5 But would that you were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end.
Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!
6 But hear you the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips.
Nowe heare my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments of my lips.
7 Do you not speak before the Lord, and utter deceit before him?
Will ye speake wickedly for Gods defence, and talke deceitfully for his cause?
8 Or will you draw back? nay do, you yourselves be judges.
Will ye accept his person? or will ye contende for God?
9 For [it were] well if he would thoroughly search you: for though doing all things [in your power] you should attach yourselves to him,
Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?
10 he will not reprove you at all the less: but if moreover you should secretly respect persons,
He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly accept any person.
11 shall not his whirlpool sweep you round, and terror from him fall upon you?
Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?
12 And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body [like a body] of clay.
Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.
13 Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from [mine] anger,
Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.
14 while I may take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soule in mine hande?
15 Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him.
Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.
16 And this shall turn to me for salvation; for fraud shall have no entrance before him.
He shalbe my saluation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him.
17 Hear, hear you my words, for I will declare in your hearing.
Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke.
18 Behold, I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just.
Beholde nowe: if I prepare me to iudgement, I knowe that I shalbe iustified.
19 For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire?
Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.
20 But grant me two things: then I will not hide myself from your face.
But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.
21 Withhold [your] hand from me: and let not your fear terrify me.
Withdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide.
22 Then shall you call, and I will listen to you: or you shall speak, and I will give you an answer.
Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.
23 How many are my sins and my transgressions? teach me what they are.
Howe many are mine iniquities and sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne.
24 Therefore hide you yourself from me, and deem me your enemy?
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?
25 Will you be startled [at me], as [at] a leaf shaken by the wind? or will you set yourself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?
Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and from? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?
26 for you have written evil things against me, and you have compassed me with the sins of my youth.
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth.
27 And you have placed my foot in the stocks; and you have watched all my works, and have penetrated my heels.
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.
28 [I am as] that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment.
Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.
