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Job 13
[1] “Behold, my eye has seen all this.
My ear has heard and understood it.
[2] What you know, I know also.
I am not inferior to you. [3] “Surely I would speak to the Almighty.
I desire to reason with God.
[4] But you are forgers of lies.
You are all physicians of no value.
[5] Oh that you would be completely silent!
Then you would be wise.
[6] Hear now my reasoning.
Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
[7] Will you speak unrighteously for God,
and talk deceitfully for him?
[8] Will you show partiality to him?
Will you contend for God?
[9] Is it good that he should search you out?
Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
[10] He will surely reprove you
if you secretly show partiality.
[11] Won’t his majesty make you afraid
and his dread fall on you?
[12] Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes.
Your defenses are defenses of clay. [13] “Be silent!
Leave me alone, that I may speak.
Let come on me what will.
[14] Why should I take my flesh in my teeth,
and put my life in my hand?
[15] Behold, he will kill me.
I have no hope.
Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
[16] This also will be my salvation,
that a godless man will not come before him.
[17] Listen carefully to my speech.
Let my declaration be in your ears.
[18] See now, I have set my cause in order.
I know that I am righteous.
[19] Who is he who will contend with me?
For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit. [20] “Only don’t do two things to me,
then I will not hide myself from your face:
[21] withdraw your hand far from me,
and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
[22] Then call, and I will answer,
or let me speak, and you answer me.
[23] How many are my iniquities and sins?
Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
[24] Why do you hide your face,
and consider me your enemy?
[25] Will you harass a driven leaf?
Will you pursue the dry stubble?
[26] For you write bitter things against me,
and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
[27] You also put my feet in the stocks,
and mark all my paths.
You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
[28] though I am decaying like a rotten thing,
like a garment that is moth-eaten.
My ear has heard and understood it.
[2] What you know, I know also.
I am not inferior to you. [3] “Surely I would speak to the Almighty.
I desire to reason with God.
[4] But you are forgers of lies.
You are all physicians of no value.
[5] Oh that you would be completely silent!
Then you would be wise.
[6] Hear now my reasoning.
Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
[7] Will you speak unrighteously for God,
and talk deceitfully for him?
[8] Will you show partiality to him?
Will you contend for God?
[9] Is it good that he should search you out?
Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
[10] He will surely reprove you
if you secretly show partiality.
[11] Won’t his majesty make you afraid
and his dread fall on you?
[12] Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes.
Your defenses are defenses of clay. [13] “Be silent!
Leave me alone, that I may speak.
Let come on me what will.
[14] Why should I take my flesh in my teeth,
and put my life in my hand?
[15] Behold, he will kill me.
I have no hope.
Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
[16] This also will be my salvation,
that a godless man will not come before him.
[17] Listen carefully to my speech.
Let my declaration be in your ears.
[18] See now, I have set my cause in order.
I know that I am righteous.
[19] Who is he who will contend with me?
For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit. [20] “Only don’t do two things to me,
then I will not hide myself from your face:
[21] withdraw your hand far from me,
and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
[22] Then call, and I will answer,
or let me speak, and you answer me.
[23] How many are my iniquities and sins?
Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
[24] Why do you hide your face,
and consider me your enemy?
[25] Will you harass a driven leaf?
Will you pursue the dry stubble?
[26] For you write bitter things against me,
and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
[27] You also put my feet in the stocks,
and mark all my paths.
You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
[28] though I am decaying like a rotten thing,
like a garment that is moth-eaten.