Job 13
1 Lo, all — hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.
Lo, my eye hath seen all [this], my 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, [the same] do 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.
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4 And yet, ye [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought — all of you,
But ye [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.
O that ye would altogether hold your peace and it would be your wisdom.
6 Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,
Hear now my reasoning, 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 wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
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?
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him?
10 He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11 Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?
Shall not his excellence make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12 Your remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
Your remembrances [are] like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13 Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may 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?
Why do 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.
Though he shall slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him.
16 Also — He [is] to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.
He also [shall be] my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him.
17 Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears.
Hear diligently 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 [my] 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] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall expire.
20 Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden.
Only do not two [things] to 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 dread make me afraid.
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 answer thou me.
23 How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.
How many [are] my 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?
Why hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thy enemy?
25 A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the 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,
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly to all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
28 And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten.
