Job 13
1 Lo! all this mine eye hath seen; Mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2 What ye know, I know also; I am not inferior to you.
What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior unto you.
3 But O that I might speak with the Almighty! O that I might reason with God!
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4 For ye are forgers of lies; Physicians of no value, all of you!
But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value.
5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! This, truly, would be wisdom in you.
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
6 Hear, I pray you, my arguments; Attend to the pleadings of my lips!
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Will ye speak falsehood for God? Will ye utter deceit for him?
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
8 Will ye be partial to his person? Will ye contend earnestly for God?
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
9 Will it be well for you, if he search you thoroughly? Can ye deceive him, as one may deceive a man?
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him?
10 Surely he will rebuke you, If ye secretly have respect to persons.
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11 Doth not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall upon you?
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12 Your maxims are words of dust; Your fortresses are fortresses of clay.
Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13 Hold your peace, and let me speak: And then come upon me what will!
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will].
14 Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15 Lo! he slayeth me, and I have no hope! Yet will I justify my ways before him.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
16 This also shall be my deliverance; For no unrighteous man will come before him.
He also [shall be] my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
17 Hear attentively my words, And give ear to my declaration!
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
18 Behold, I have now set in order my cause; I know that I am innocent.
Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19 Who is he that can contend with me? For then would I hold my peace, and die!
Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
20 Only do not unto me two things, Then will I not hide myself from thy presence;
Only do not two [things] unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
21 Let not thy hand be heavy upon me, And let not thy terrors make me afraid:
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
22 Then call upon me, and I will answer; Or I will speak, and answer thou me.
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my faults and transgressions.
How many [are] mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24 Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, And account me as thine enemy?
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
25 Wilt thou put in fear the driven leaf? Wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me inherit the sins of my youth.
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
27 Yea, thou puttest my feet in the stocks, And waterest all my paths; Thou hemmest in the soles of my feet.
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
28 And I, like an abandoned thing, shall waste away; Like a garment which is moth-eaten.
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
