< Job 13 >
1 There! all it has seen eye my it has heard ear my and it has understood it.
"Look, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
2 Like knowledge your I know also I not [am] falling I more than you.
What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
3 But I to [the] Almighty I will speak and to argue to God I desire.
"Surely I would speak to Shaddai. I desire to reason with God.
4 And but you [are] smearers of falsehood [are] physicians of worthlessness all of you.
But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
5 Who? will he give certainly you will be silent! and it may become for you wisdom.
Oh that you would be completely silent. Then you would be wise.
6 Listen to please argument my and [the] contentions of lips my pay attention to.
Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7 ¿ for God will you speak unrighteousness and for him will you speak? deceit.
Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
8 ¿ Face his will you lift up! or? for God will you argue a case!
Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend 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 should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
10 Certainly he will rebuke you if in secrecy faces you will lift up!
He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.
11 ¿ Not majesty his will it terrify you and dread his will it fall? on you.
Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?
12 Memorials your [are] proverbs of ash[es] [are] defenses of clay defenses your.
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
13 Be silent from me so let me speak I and let it pass on me whatever.
"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
14 Concerning what? - will I take flesh my in teeth my and life my will I put? in palm my.
Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life 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.
Look, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
16 Also that of me [will be] for deliverance for not before him a godless [person] he will come.
This also shall be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.
17 Listen completely [to] speech my and declaration my [be] in ears your.
Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.
18 Here! please I have arranged a case I know that I I am in [the] right.
See now, I have set my cause in order. I know 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 who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
20 Only two [things] may not you do with me then from before you not I will hide myself.
"Only do not do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face:
21 Hand your from on me put far away and dread your may not it terrify me.
withdraw your hand far from me; and do not let your terror make me afraid.
22 And call and I I will answer or let me speak and respond to me.
Then call, and I will answer; or let me 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 are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
24 Why? face your do you hide and do you consider? me to an enemy of you.
Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
25 ¿ A leaf driven about will you terrify and chaff dry will you pursue?
Will you harass a driven leaf? Will 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 make me inherit the 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.
You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
28 And he like rottenness he wears out like a garment [which] it eats it a moth.
though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.