< Job 13 >
1 look! all to see: see eye my to hear: hear ear my and to understand to/for her
Behold, mine eye has seen these things, and mine ear has heard [them].
2 like/as knowledge your to know also I not to fall: fall I from you
And I know all that ye too know; and I have not less understanding than you.
3 but I to(wards) Almighty to speak: speak and to rebuke to(wards) God to delight in
Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will.
4 and but you(m. p.) to smear deception to heal idol all your
But ye are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases.
5 who? to give: give be quiet be quiet [emph?] and to be to/for you to/for wisdom
But would that ye were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end.
6 to hear: hear please argument my and strife lips my to listen
But hear ye the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips.
7 to/for God to speak: speak injustice and to/for him to speak: speak deceit
Do ye not speak before the Lord, and utter deceit before him?
8 face: kindness his to lift: kindness [emph?] if: surely no to/for God to contend [emph?]
Or will ye draw back? nay do, ye yourselves be judges.
9 pleasant for to search [obj] you if: surely no like/as to deceive in/on/with human to deceive in/on/with him
For [it were] well if he would thoroughly search you: for though doing all things [in your power] ye should attach yourselves to him,
10 to rebuke to rebuke [obj] you if in/on/with secrecy face to lift: kindness [emph?]
he will not reprove you at all the less: but if moreover ye should secretly respect persons,
11 not elevation his to terrify [obj] you and dread his to fall: fall upon you
shall not his whirlpool sweep you round, and terror from him fall upon you?
12 memorial your proverb ashes to/for back/rim/brow clay back/rim/brow your
And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body [like a body] of clay.
13 be quiet from me and to speak: speak I and to pass upon me what?
Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from [mine] anger,
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
while I may 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
Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead 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
And this shall turn to me for salvation; for fraud shall have no entrance before him.
17 to hear: hear to hear: hear speech my and declaration my in/on/with ear your
Hear, hear ye my words, for I will declare in your hearing.
18 behold please to arrange justice: judgement to know for I to justify
Behold, I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just.
19 who? he/she/it to contend with me me for now be quiet and to die
For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire?
20 surely two not to make: offer with me me then from face your not to hide
But grant me two things: then I will not hide myself from thy face.
21 palm your from upon me to remove and terror your not to terrify me
Withhold [thine] hand from me: and let not thy fear terrify me.
22 and to call: call to and I to answer or to speak: speak and to return: reply me
Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: or thou shalt speak, and I will give thee an answer.
23 like/as what? to/for me iniquity: crime and sin transgression my and sin my to know me
How many are my sins and my transgressions? teach me what they are.
24 to/for what? face your to hide and to devise: think me to/for enemy to/for you
Wherefore hidest thou thyself from me, and deemest me thine enemy?
25 leaf to drive to tremble and [obj] stubble dry to pursue
Wilt thou be startled [at me], as [at] a leaf shaken by the wind? or wilt thou set thyself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?
26 for to write upon me gall and to possess: possess me iniquity: crime youth my
for thou hast written evil things against me, and thou hast compassed me with the sins 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
And thou hast placed my foot in the stocks; and thou hast watched all my works, and hast penetrated my heels.
28 and he/she/it like/as rottenness to become old like/as garment to eat him moth
[I am as] that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment.