Job 13
1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it.
ἰδοὺ ταῦτα ἑώρακέν μου ὁ ὀφθαλμὸς καὶ ἀκήκοέν μου τὸ οὖς
2 What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
καὶ οἶδα ὅσα καὶ ὑμεῖς ἐπίστασθε καὶ οὐκ ἀσυνετώτερός εἰμι ὑμῶν
3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλ’ ἐγὼ πρὸς κύριον λαλήσω ἐλέγξω δὲ ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ ἐὰν βούληται
4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
ὑμεῖς δέ ἐστε ἰατροὶ ἄδικοι καὶ ἰαταὶ κακῶν πάντες
5 Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
εἴη δὲ ὑμῖν κωφεῦσαι καὶ ἀποβήσεται ὑμῖν εἰς σοφίαν
6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
ἀκούσατε ἔλεγχον στόματός μου κρίσιν δὲ χειλέων μου προσέχετε
7 Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
πότερον οὐκ ἔναντι κυρίου λαλεῖτε ἔναντι δὲ αὐτοῦ φθέγγεσθε δόλον
8 Will ye respect his person? will ye contend for God?
ἦ ὑποστελεῖσθε ὑμεῖς δὲ αὐτοὶ κριταὶ γένεσθε
9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?
καλόν γε ἐὰν ἐξιχνιάσῃ ὑμᾶς εἰ γὰρ τὰ πάντα ποιοῦντες προστεθήσεσθε αὐτῷ
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly respect persons.
οὐθὲν ἧττον ἐλέγξει ὑμᾶς εἰ δὲ καὶ κρυφῇ πρόσωπα θαυμάσετε
11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?
πότερον οὐχὶ δεινὰ αὐτοῦ στροβήσει ὑμᾶς φόβος δὲ παρ’ αὐτοῦ ἐπιπεσεῖται ὑμῖν
12 Your memorable sayings [are] proverbs of ashes, your defences [are] defences of clay.
ἀποβήσεται δὲ ὑμῶν τὸ ἀγαυρίαμα ἴσα σποδῷ τὸ δὲ σῶμα πήλινον
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what wilt.
κωφεύσατε ἵνα λαλήσω καὶ ἀναπαύσωμαι θυμοῦ
14 Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
ἀναλαβὼν τὰς σάρκας μου τοῖς ὀδοῦσιν ψυχὴν δέ μου θήσω ἐν χειρί
15 Though he slay me, yet will I wait for him: nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.
ἐάν με χειρώσηται ὁ δυνάστης ἐπεὶ καὶ ἦρκται ἦ μὴν λαλήσω καὶ ἐλέγξω ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ
16 This also shall be my salvation; for a godless man shall not come before him.
καὶ τοῦτό μοι ἀποβήσεται εἰς σωτηρίαν οὐ γὰρ ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ δόλος εἰσελεύσεται
17 Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.
ἀκούσατε ἀκούσατε τὰ ῥήματά μου ἀναγγελῶ γὰρ ὑμῶν ἀκουόντων
18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I am righteous.
ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐγγύς εἰμι τοῦ κρίματός μου οἶδα ἐγὼ ὅτι δίκαιος ἀναφανοῦμαι
19 Who is he that will contend with me? for now shall I hold my peace and give up the ghost.
τίς γάρ ἐστιν ὁ κριθησόμενός μοι ὅτι νῦν κωφεύσω καὶ ἐκλείψω
20 Only do not two things unto me, then will I not hide myself from thy face:
δυεῖν δέ μοι χρήσῃ τότε ἀπὸ τοῦ προσώπου σου οὐ κρυβήσομαι
21 Withdraw thine hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid.
τὴν χεῖρα ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ ἀπέχου καὶ ὁ φόβος σου μή με καταπλησσέτω
22 Then call thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer thou me.
εἶτα καλέσεις ἐγὼ δέ σοι ὑπακούσομαι ἢ λαλήσεις ἐγὼ δέ σοι δώσω ἀνταπόκρισιν
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
πόσαι εἰσὶν αἱ ἁμαρτίαι μου καὶ αἱ ἀνομίαι μου δίδαξόν με τίνες εἰσίν
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
διὰ τί ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ κρύπτῃ ἥγησαι δέ με ὑπεναντίον σοι
25 Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
ἦ ὡς φύλλον κινούμενον ὑπὸ ἀνέμου εὐλαβηθήσῃ ἢ ὡς χόρτῳ φερομένῳ ὑπὸ πνεύματος ἀντίκεισαί μοι
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth:
ὅτι κατέγραψας κατ’ ἐμοῦ κακά περιέθηκας δέ μοι νεότητος ἁμαρτίας
27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou drawest thee a line about the soles of my feet:
ἔθου δέ μου τὸν πόδα ἐν κωλύματι ἐφύλαξας δέ μου πάντα τὰ ἔργα εἰς δὲ ῥίζας τῶν ποδῶν μου ἀφίκου
28 Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
ὃ παλαιοῦται ἴσα ἀσκῷ ἢ ὥσπερ ἱμάτιον σητόβρωτον
