Job 13
1 “Behold, my eye has seen all, My ear has heard, and it attends to it.
Lo, all — hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.
2 According to your knowledge I have known—also I. I am not more fallen than you.
According to your knowledge I have known — also I. I am not fallen more than you.
3 Yet I speak for the Mighty One, And I delight to argue for God.
Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.
4 And yet, you [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nothing—all of you,
And yet, ye [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought — all of you,
5 O that you would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
6 Please hear my argument, And attend to the pleadings of my lips,
Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,
7 Do you speak perverseness for God? And do you speak deceit for Him?
For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?
8 Do you accept His face, if you strive for God?
His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?
9 Is [it] good that He searches you, If, as one mocks at a man, you mock at Him?
Is [it] good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?
10 He surely reproves you, if you accept faces in secret.
He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.
11 Does His excellence not terrify you? And His dread fall on you?
Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?
12 Your remembrances [are] allegories of ashes, For high places of clay [are] your heights.
Your remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
13 Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me what will.
Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?
14 Why do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?
15 Behold, He slays me—I do not wait! Only, I argue my ways to His face.
Lo, He doth slay me — I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.
16 Also—He [is] to me for salvation, For the profane do not come before Him.
Also — He [is] to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.
17 Hear my word diligently, And my declaration with your ears.
Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears.
18 Now behold, I have set the cause in order, I have known that I am righteous.
Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.
19 Who [is] he that strives with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
Who [is] he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
20 Only two things, O God, do with me, Then I am not hidden from Your face:
Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden.
21 Put Your hand far off from me, And do not let Your terror terrify me.
Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.
22 And You call, and I answer, Or—I speak, and You answer me.
And call Thou, and I — I answer, Or — I speak, and answer Thou me.
23 How many iniquities and sins do I have? Let me know my transgression and my sin.
How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.
24 Why do You hide Your face? And reckon me for an enemy to You?
Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?
25 Do You terrify a leaf driven away? And do You pursue the dry stubble?
A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?
26 For You write bitter things against me, And cause me to possess iniquities of my youth,
For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:
27 And you put my feet in the stocks, And observe all my paths—You set a print on the roots of my feet,
And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,
28 And he, as a rotten thing, wears away, A moth has consumed him as a garment.”
And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
