< Job 13 >
1 There! all it has seen eye my it has heard ear my and it has understood it.
“Behold, my eye has seen all, My ear has heard, and it attends to it.
2 Like knowledge your I know also I not [am] falling I more than you.
According to your knowledge I have known—also I. I am not more fallen than you.
3 But I to [the] Almighty I will speak and to argue to God I desire.
Yet I speak for the Mighty One, And I delight to argue for God.
4 And but you [are] smearers of falsehood [are] physicians of worthlessness all of you.
And yet, you [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nothing—all of you,
5 Who? will he give certainly you will be silent! and it may become for you wisdom.
O that you would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
6 Listen to please argument my and [the] contentions of lips my pay attention to.
Please hear my argument, And attend to the pleadings of my lips,
7 ¿ for God will you speak unrighteousness and for him will you speak? deceit.
Do you speak perverseness for God? And do you speak deceit for Him?
8 ¿ Face his will you lift up! or? for God will you argue a case!
Do you accept His face, if you strive for God?
9 ¿ [will it be] good If he will examine you or? as deceives a person will you deceive him.
Is [it] good that He searches you, If, as one mocks at a man, you mock at Him?
10 Certainly he will rebuke you if in secrecy faces you will lift up!
He surely reproves you, if you accept faces in secret.
11 ¿ Not majesty his will it terrify you and dread his will it fall? on you.
Does His excellence not terrify you? And His dread fall on you?
12 Memorials your [are] proverbs of ash[es] [are] defenses of clay defenses your.
Your remembrances [are] allegories of ashes, For high places of clay [are] your heights.
13 Be silent from me so let me speak I and let it pass on me whatever.
Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me what will.
14 Concerning what? - will I take flesh my in teeth my and life my will I put? in palm my.
Why do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?
15 There! he will kill me (to him *Q(K)*) I will hope nevertheless ways my to face his I will argue.
Behold, He slays me—I do not wait! Only, I argue my ways to His face.
16 Also that of me [will be] for deliverance for not before him a godless [person] he will come.
Also—He [is] to me for salvation, For the profane do not come before Him.
17 Listen completely [to] speech my and declaration my [be] in ears your.
Hear my word diligently, And my declaration with your ears.
18 Here! please I have arranged a case I know that I I am in [the] right.
Now behold, I have set the cause in order, I have known that I am righteous.
19 Who? that will he conduct a case with me if now I will keep silent and I may expire.
Who [is] he that strives with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
20 Only two [things] may not you do with me then from before you not I will hide myself.
Only two things, O God, do with me, Then I am not hidden from Your face:
21 Hand your from on me put far away and dread your may not it terrify me.
Put Your hand far off from me, And do not let Your terror terrify me.
22 And call and I I will answer or let me speak and respond to me.
And You call, and I answer, Or—I speak, and You answer me.
23 How many? of me [are] iniquities and sins transgression my and sin my make known to me.
How many iniquities and sins do I have? Let me know my transgression and my sin.
24 Why? face your do you hide and do you consider? me to an enemy of you.
Why do You hide Your face? And reckon me for an enemy to You?
25 ¿ A leaf driven about will you terrify and chaff dry will you pursue?
Do You terrify a leaf driven away? And do You pursue the dry stubble?
26 For you write on me bitter things and you cause to inherit me [the] iniquities of youth my.
For You write bitter things against me, And cause me to possess iniquities of my youth,
27 And you put in the stock[s] - feet my so you may watch all paths my on [the] roots of feet my you make a mark.
And you put my feet in the stocks, And observe all my paths—You set a print on the roots of my feet,
28 And he like rottenness he wears out like a garment [which] it eats it a moth.
And he, as a rotten thing, wears away, A moth has consumed him as a garment.”