Iyoḇ (Job) 13
13
1“Look, my eye has seen it all, my ear has heard and understood it.
2What you know, I know too; I am not less than you.
3But I would speak to the Almighty, and I delight to reason with Ěl.
4But you smear with falsehood, worthless healers, all of you!
5If you would only be silent, then it would be your wisdom!
6Please hear my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7Would you speak perversely for Ěl, and speak deceit for Him?
8Would you be partial towards Him? Would you plead for Ěl?
9Would it be well when He searches you out? Or could you deceive Him as one deceives a man?
10He would certainly reprove you if you secretly show partiality.
11Should not His excellence make you afraid, and the dread of Him fall upon you?
12Your weighty sayings are proverbs of ashes, your shields are shields of clay.
13Be silent before me, and let me speak, and let whatever come upon me!
14Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hands?
15Though, He kills me – in Him I expect! But I show my ways to be right before Him.
16He also is my deliverance, for a defiled one does not come before Him.
17Listen closely to my words, and with your ears to what I say.
18Look, please, I have prepared my case, I know that I am in the right.
19Who is he who would strive with me? For then I would keep silent and die.
20Only two matters do not do to me, then I am not hidden from Your face:
21Withdraw Your hand far from me, and let not dread of You make me afraid.
22Then call, and let me answer; or let me speak, and You reply to me.
23How many are my crookednesses and sins? Let me know my transgression and my sin.
24Why do You hide Your face, and reckon me as Your enemy?
25Would You frighten a leaf driven to and fro? And would You pursue dry stubble?
26For You write bitter charges against me, and make me inherit the crookednesses of my youth,
27and put my feet in the stocks, and look closely to all my paths. You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
28And he, like that which is rotten, wastes away, as a garment that is moth-eaten.
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Job 13
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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