< Job 13 >
1 look! all to see: see eye my to hear: hear ear my and to understand to/for her
Lo, all [this] hath my eye seen, my ear hath heard and noted it for itself;
2 like/as knowledge your to know also I not to fall: fall I from you
As much as ye know, do I also know: I do not fall short compared with you.
3 but I to(wards) Almighty to speak: speak and to rebuke to(wards) God to delight in
However, I would gladly speak to the Almighty; and to argue with God do I desire.
4 and but you(m. p.) to smear deception to heal idol all your
But ye are inventors of falsehood, physicians of no value are all of you.
5 who? to give: give be quiet be quiet [emph?] and to be to/for you to/for wisdom
Oh, who would grant that ye might keep a profound silences! and it would he accounted unto you as wisdom.
6 to hear: hear please argument my and strife lips my to listen
Do hearken but to my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7 to/for God to speak: speak injustice and to/for him to speak: speak deceit
Will ye speak wrong things for God? and will ye speak for him deceitfully?
8 face: kindness his to lift: kindness [emph?] if: surely no to/for God to contend [emph?]
Will ye show him undue favor, when ye 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
Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one overreacheth another mortal, do ye expect to overreach him?
10 to rebuke to rebuke [obj] you if in/on/with secrecy face to lift: kindness [emph?]
He will surely reprove you, if in secret you show him undue favor.
11 not elevation his to terrify [obj] you and dread his to fall: fall upon you
Doth not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?
12 memorial your proverb ashes to/for back/rim/brow clay back/rim/brow your
The things you remember are mere proverbs of ashes, your high-places are high-places of clay.
13 be quiet from me and to speak: speak I and to pass upon me what?
Keep silence toward me, that I may indeed speak, and let pass over 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
Whatever it may cost, I will take my flesh in my teeth, and my life will I put 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
Lo, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: only I will argue my own 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
Even he will come to my assistance; for a hypocrite cannot come before him.
17 to hear: hear to hear: hear speech my and declaration my in/on/with ear your
Listen well to my word, and to my demonstration with your ears.
18 behold please to arrange justice: judgement to know for I to justify
Behold now, I have arrayed my cause: I know that I shall be indeed justified.
19 who? he/she/it to contend with me me for now be quiet and to die
Who is he that will contend with me? for now, if I keep silence, I must perish.
20 surely two not to make: offer with me me then from face your not to hide
Only two things do not unto me: then will I not hide myself from thy presence.
21 palm your from upon me to remove and terror your not to terrify me
Remove thy hand far from me; and let not thy dread terrify me.
22 and to call: call to and I to answer or to speak: speak and to return: reply me
Then call thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and do thou reply to 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? my transgression and my sin let me know.
24 to/for what? face your to hide and to devise: think me to/for enemy to/for you
Wherefore wilt thou hide thy face, and regard me as an enemy unto thee?
25 leaf to drive to tremble and [obj] stubble dry to pursue
Wilt thou terrify a leaf driven about [by the wind]? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
26 for to write upon me gall and to possess: possess me iniquity: crime youth my
That thou writest bitter decrees against me, and assignest unto me 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
And [that] thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest narrowly all my paths; [and] settest for thyself a mark upon the soles of my feet?
28 and he/she/it like/as rottenness to become old like/as garment to eat him moth
And yet the body decayeth like a rotten thing, as a garment that the moth hath eaten.