Job 13
1 Lo, all — hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.
Lo, all [this] hath my eye seen, my ear hath heard and noted it for itself;
2 According to your knowledge I have known — also I. I am not fallen more than you.
As much as ye know, do I also know: I do not fall short compared with you.
3 Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.
However, I would gladly speak to the Almighty; and to argue with God do I desire.
4 And yet, ye [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought — all of you,
But ye are inventors of falsehood, physicians of no value are all of you.
5 O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
Oh, who would grant that ye might keep a profound silences! and it would he accounted unto you as wisdom.
6 Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,
Do hearken but to my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7 For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?
Will ye speak wrong things for God? and will ye speak for him deceitfully?
8 His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?
Will ye show him undue favor, when 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 overreacheth another mortal, do ye expect to overreach him?
10 He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.
He will surely reprove you, if in secret you show him undue favor.
11 Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?
Doth 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.
The things you remember are mere proverbs of ashes, your high-places are high-places of clay.
13 Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?
Keep silence toward me, that I may indeed speak, and let pass over me what will.
14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?
Whatever it may cost, I will take my flesh in my teeth, and my life will I put in my hand.
15 Lo, He doth slay me — I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.
Lo, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: only I will argue my own ways before him.
16 Also — He [is] to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.
Even he will come to my assistance; for a hypocrite cannot come before him.
17 Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears.
Listen well to my word, and to my demonstration 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 arrayed my cause: I know that I shall be indeed justified.
19 Who [is] he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
Who is he that will contend with me? for now, if I keep silence, I must perish.
20 Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden.
Only two things do not unto me: then will I not hide myself from thy presence.
21 Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.
Remove thy hand far from me; and let not thy dread terrify me.
22 And call Thou, and I — I answer, Or — I speak, and answer Thou me.
Then call thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and do thou reply to me.
23 How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.
How many are my iniquities and sins? my transgression and my sin let me know.
24 Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?
Wherefore wilt thou hide thy face, and regard me as an enemy unto thee?
25 A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?
Wilt thou terrify a leaf driven about [by the wind]? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
26 For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:
That thou writest bitter decrees against me, and assignest unto me 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 [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, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
And yet the body decayeth like a rotten thing, as a garment that the moth hath eaten.
