Job 13
1 Lo, all — hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.
Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2 According to your knowledge I have known — also I. I am not fallen more than you.
What ye know, I know also: I am not inferior to you.
3 Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.
But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with God;
4 And yet, ye [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought — all of you,
For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5 O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom.
6 Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,
Hear now my defence, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7 For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?
Will ye speak unrighteously for God? and for him speak deceit?
8 His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
9 Is [it] good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?
Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?
10 He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.
He will certainly reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11 Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?
Shall not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?
12 Your remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
13 Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?
Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what [will]!
14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?
Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
15 Lo, He doth slay me — I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.
Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him.
16 Also — He [is] to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.
This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face.
17 Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears.
Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears.
18 Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.
Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19 Who [is] he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.
20 Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden.
Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee.
21 Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.
Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid:
22 And call Thou, and I — I answer, Or — I speak, and answer Thou me.
Then call, and I will answer; or I will speak, and answer thou me.
23 How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.
How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24 Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?
Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?
25 A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?
Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
26 For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth;
27 And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,
And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; —
28 And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.
