Job 13
1 look! all to see: see eye my to hear: hear ear my and to understand to/for her
“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
2 like/as knowledge your to know also I not to fall: fall I from you
What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
3 but I to(wards) Almighty to speak: speak and to rebuke to(wards) God to delight in
“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
4 and but you(m. p.) to smear deception to heal idol all your
But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
5 who? to give: give be quiet be quiet [emph?] and to be to/for you to/for wisdom
Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
6 to hear: hear please argument my and strife lips my to listen
Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7 to/for God to speak: speak injustice and to/for him to speak: speak deceit
Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
8 face: kindness his to lift: kindness [emph?] if: surely no to/for God to contend [emph?]
Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
9 pleasant for to search [obj] you if: surely no like/as to deceive in/on/with human to deceive in/on/with him
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
10 to rebuke to rebuke [obj] you if in/on/with secrecy face to lift: kindness [emph?]
He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.
11 not elevation his to terrify [obj] you and dread his to fall: fall upon you
Will not his majesty make you afraid and his dread fall on you?
12 memorial your proverb ashes to/for back/rim/brow clay back/rim/brow your
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
13 be quiet from me and to speak: speak I and to pass upon me what?
“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
14 upon what? to lift: raise flesh my in/on/with tooth my and soul: life my to set: put in/on/with palm my
Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
15 look! to slay me (to/for him *Q(K)*) to wait: hope surely way: conduct my to(wards) face his to rebuke
Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
16 also he/she/it to/for me to/for salvation for not to/for face: before his profane to come (in): come
This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him.
17 to hear: hear to hear: hear speech my and declaration my in/on/with ear your
Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.
18 behold please to arrange justice: judgement to know for I to justify
See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
19 who? he/she/it to contend with me me for now be quiet and to die
Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
20 surely two not to make: offer with me me then from face your not to hide
“Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face:
21 palm your from upon me to remove and terror your not to terrify me
withdraw your hand far from me, and do not let your terror make me afraid.
22 and to call: call to and I to answer or to speak: speak and to return: reply me
Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.
23 like/as what? to/for me iniquity: crime and sin transgression my and sin my to know me
How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
24 to/for what? face your to hide and to devise: think me to/for enemy to/for you
Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?
25 leaf to drive to tremble and [obj] stubble dry to pursue
Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
26 for to write upon me gall and to possess: possess me iniquity: crime youth my
For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
27 and to set: put in/on/with stock foot my and to keep: look at all way my upon root foot my to engrave
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/she/it like/as rottenness to become old like/as garment to eat him moth
though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
