Job 13

1“Notice, my eye has seen all this;

my ear has heard and understood it.

2#Job 12:3 What you know, I also know the same;

I am not inferior to you.

3#Job 13:22; 31:35 Surely I would speak to the Almighty,

and I desire to reason with God.

4#Ps 119:69; Job 16:2 But you are plasterers of falsehood;

you are all physicians of no value.

5#Pr 17:28; Job 13:13 Oh, that you would altogether hold your peace,

and it would be your wisdom!

6Hear now my reasoning,

and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

7#Job 36:4 Will you speak wickedly for God?

And talk deceitfully for Him?

8#Pr 24:23 Will you take His side?

Will you plead for God?

9Is it good that He would search you out?

Or as one man mocks another, do you so mock Him?

10He will surely rebuke you,

if you secretly show partiality.

11#Job 31:23 Will not His excellence make you afraid,

and the dread of Him fall upon you?

12Your reminders are parables made of ashes;

your answers are answers made of clay.

13#Job 13:5 “Hold your peace; leave me alone, that I may speak,

and let come on me what may!

14#Jdg 12:3; Ps 119:109 Why do I take my flesh in my teeth

and put my life in my hand?

15#Job 27:5; Pr 14:32 Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him,#Original Heb. I have no hope.

but I will defend my own ways before Him.

16He also will be my salvation,

for a hypocrite could not come before Him.

17Listen carefully to my speech,

and to my declaration with your ears.

18#Job 23:4 See now, I have prepared my case;

I know that I will be justified.

19Who is he who will plead with me?

For now, if I hold my tongue, I will give up my breath.

20“Only grant me two things,

then I will not hide myself from You:

21#Job 9:34; 33:7 Withdraw Your hand far from me,

and let not the dread of You make me afraid.

22#Job 14:15 Then call, and I will answer;

or let me speak, and You answer me.

23How many are my iniquities and sins?

Make known to me my transgression and my sin.

24#Job 19:11; La 2:5 Why do You hide Your face

and regard me as Your enemy?

25#Lev 26:36; Job 21:18 Will You frighten a leaf driven to and fro?

And will You pursue dry stubble?

26#Ps 25:7 For You write bitter things against me

and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

27#Job 33:11 You put my feet in the stocks

and watch closely all my paths;

You draw a line around the soles of my feet.

28#Job 4:19 “Man, as a rotten thing, decays,

as a garment that is moth eaten.

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Job 13

1Lo, mine eye hath seen all this,

Mine ear hath heard and understood it.

2What ye know, the same do I know also:

I am not inferior unto you.

3Surely I would speak to the Almighty,

And I desire to reason with God.

4But ye are forgers of lies,

Ye are all physicians of no value.

5O that ye would altogether hold your peace!

And it should be your wisdom.

6Hear now my reasoning,

And hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

7Will ye speak wickedly for God?

And talk deceitfully for him?

8Will ye accept his person?

Will ye contend for God?

9Is it good that he should search you out?

Or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

10He will surely reprove you,

If ye do secretly accept persons.

11Shall not his excellency make you afraid?

And his dread fall upon you?

12Your remembrances are like unto ashes,

Your bodies to bodies of clay.

13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak,

And let come on me what will.

14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth,

And put my life in mine hand?

15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:

But I will maintain mine own ways before him.

16He also shall be my salvation:

For an hypocrite shall not come before him.

17Hear diligently my speech,

And my declaration with your ears.

18Behold now, I have ordered my cause;

I know that I shall be justified.

19Who is he that will plead with me?

For now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

20Only do not two things unto me:

Then will I not hide myself from thee.

21Withdraw thine hand far from me:

And let not thy dread make me afraid.

22Then call thou, and I will answer:

Or let me speak, and answer thou me.

23How many are mine iniquities and sins?

Make me to know my transgression and my sin.

24Wherefore hidest thou thy face,

And holdest me for thine enemy?

25Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro?

And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

26For thou writest bitter things against me,

And makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks,

And lookest narrowly unto all my paths;

Thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth,

As a garment that is moth eaten.

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