Job 13
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Job 13
1“Look, my eye has seen all this;
my ear has heard and understood it.
2What you know, I also know;
I am not inferior to you.
3 #
Job 23.3, 4 But I would speak to the Almighty,#13.3 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
and I desire to argue my case with God.
4 #
Ps 119.69; Jer 23.32 As for you, you whitewash with lies;
all of you are worthless physicians.
5 #
Prov 17.28
If you would only keep silent,
that would be your wisdom!
6Hear now my reasoning,
and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7Will you speak falsely for God
and speak deceitfully for him?
8Will you show partiality toward him;
will you plead the case for God?
9 #
Ps 44.21; Gal 6.7 Will it be well with you when he searches you out?
Or can you deceive him as one person deceives another?
10He will surely rebuke you
if in secret you show partiality.
11Will not his majesty terrify you
and the dread of him fall upon you?
12 #
Job 15.3
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;
your defenses are defenses of clay.
13“Let me have silence, and I will speak,
and let come on me what may.
14 #
1 Sam 19.5
I will take my flesh in my teeth
and put my life in my hand.#13.14 Gk: Heb Why should I take…in my hand?
15 #
Job 27.5; Ps 23.4; Prov 14.32 See, he will kill me; I have no hope;#13.15 Or Though he kill me, yet I will trust in him
but I will defend my ways to his face.
16 #
Ps 5.5
This will be my salvation,
that the godless shall not come before him.
17 #
Job 21.2
Listen carefully to my words,
and let my declaration be in your ears.
18I have indeed prepared my case;
I know that I shall be vindicated.
19 #
Job 40.4; Isa 50.8 Who is there who will contend with me?
For then I would be silent and die.
Job’s Despondent Prayer
20“Only grant two things to me;
then I will not hide myself from your face:
21 #
Ps 39.10
withdraw your hand far from me,
and do not let dread of you terrify me.
22 #
Job 14.15
Then call, and I will answer;
or let me speak, and you reply to me.
23 #
1 Sam 26.18
How many are my iniquities and my sins?
Make me know my transgression and my sin.
24 #
Deut 32.20; Job 19.11; Ps 13.1 Why do you hide your face
and count me as your enemy?
25 #
Isa 42.3
Will you frighten a windblown leaf
and pursue dry chaff?
26 #
Ps 25.7
For you write bitter things against me
and make me reap#13.26 Heb inherit the iniquities of my youth.
27You put my feet in the stocks
and watch all my paths;
you set a bound to the soles of my feet.
28 #
Isa 50.9; Jas 5.2 One wastes away like a rotten thing,
like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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Job 13
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Job 13
1“Look, my eye has seen all this;
my ear has heard and understood it.
2What you know, I also know;
I am not inferior to you.
3 #
Job 23.3, 4 But I would speak to the Almighty,#13.3 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
and I desire to argue my case with God.
4 #
Ps 119.69; Jer 23.32 As for you, you whitewash with lies;
all of you are worthless physicians.
5 #
Prov 17.28
If you would only keep silent,
that would be your wisdom!
6Hear now my reasoning,
and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7Will you speak falsely for God
and speak deceitfully for him?
8Will you show partiality toward him;
will you plead the case for God?
9 #
Ps 44.21; Gal 6.7 Will it be well with you when he searches you out?
Or can you deceive him as one person deceives another?
10He will surely rebuke you
if in secret you show partiality.
11Will not his majesty terrify you
and the dread of him fall upon you?
12 #
Job 15.3
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;
your defenses are defenses of clay.
13“Let me have silence, and I will speak,
and let come on me what may.
14 #
1 Sam 19.5
I will take my flesh in my teeth
and put my life in my hand.#13.14 Gk: Heb Why should I take…in my hand?
15 #
Job 27.5; Ps 23.4; Prov 14.32 See, he will kill me; I have no hope;#13.15 Or Though he kill me, yet I will trust in him
but I will defend my ways to his face.
16 #
Ps 5.5
This will be my salvation,
that the godless shall not come before him.
17 #
Job 21.2
Listen carefully to my words,
and let my declaration be in your ears.
18I have indeed prepared my case;
I know that I shall be vindicated.
19 #
Job 40.4; Isa 50.8 Who is there who will contend with me?
For then I would be silent and die.
Job’s Despondent Prayer
20“Only grant two things to me;
then I will not hide myself from your face:
21 #
Ps 39.10
withdraw your hand far from me,
and do not let dread of you terrify me.
22 #
Job 14.15
Then call, and I will answer;
or let me speak, and you reply to me.
23 #
1 Sam 26.18
How many are my iniquities and my sins?
Make me know my transgression and my sin.
24 #
Deut 32.20; Job 19.11; Ps 13.1 Why do you hide your face
and count me as your enemy?
25 #
Isa 42.3
Will you frighten a windblown leaf
and pursue dry chaff?
26 #
Ps 25.7
For you write bitter things against me
and make me reap#13.26 Heb inherit the iniquities of my youth.
27You put my feet in the stocks
and watch all my paths;
you set a bound to the soles of my feet.
28 #
Isa 50.9; Jas 5.2 One wastes away like a rotten thing,
like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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