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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;My eyes have seen all this,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.13.1"><span class="content">my ears have heard and understood it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.13.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">What you know, I also know;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.13.2"><span class="content">I am not inferior to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.13.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But I desire to speak to the Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.13.3"><span class="content">and to argue my case with God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.13.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You, however, smear me with lies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.13.4"><span class="content">you are worthless physicians, all of you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.13.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If only you would be altogether silent!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.13.5"><span class="content">For you, that would be wisdom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Hear now my argument;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.13.6"><span class="content">listen to the pleas of my lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.13.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Will you speak wickedly on God&#8217;s behalf?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.13.7"><span class="content">Will you speak deceitfully for him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Will you show him partiality?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.13.8"><span class="content">Will you argue the case for God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Would it turn out well if he examined you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.13.9"><span class="content">Could you deceive him as you might deceive a mortal?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.13.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He would surely call you to account</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.13.10"><span class="content">if you secretly showed partiality.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Would not his splendor terrify you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.13.11"><span class="content">Would not the dread of him fall on you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.13.12"><span class="content">your defenses are defenses of clay.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.13.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Keep silent and let me speak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.13.13"><span class="content">then let come to me what may.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Why do I put myself in jeopardy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.13.14"><span class="content">and take my life in my hands?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.13.15"><span class="content">I will surely</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">He will surely slay me; I have no hope&#8212; / yet I will</span></span></span><span class="content"> defend my ways to his face.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Indeed, this will turn out for my deliverance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.13.16"><span class="content">for no godless person would dare come before him!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.13.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Listen carefully to what I say;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.13.17"><span class="content">let my words ring in your ears.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Now that I have prepared my case,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.13.18"><span class="content">I know I will be vindicated.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.13.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Can anyone bring charges against me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.13.19"><span class="content">If so, I will be silent and die.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.13.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Only grant me these two things, God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.13.20"><span class="content">and then I will not hide from you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.13.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Withdraw your hand far from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.13.21"><span class="content">and stop frightening me with your terrors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.13.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then summon me and I will answer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.13.22"><span class="content">or let me speak, and you reply to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.13.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">How many wrongs and sins have I committed?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.13.23"><span class="content">Show me my offense and my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.13.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Why do you hide your face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.13.24"><span class="content">and consider me your enemy?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.13.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Will you torment a windblown leaf?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.13.25"><span class="content">Will you chase after dry chaff?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.13.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For you write down bitter things against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.13.26"><span class="content">and make me reap the sins of my youth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.13.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">You fasten my feet in shackles;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.13.27"><span class="content">you keep close watch on all my paths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.13.27"><span class="content">by putting marks on the soles of my feet.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.13.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;So man wastes away like something rotten,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.13.28"><span class="content">like a garment eaten by moths.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">14</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Mortals, born of woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.14.1"><span class="content">are of few days and full of trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.14.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They spring up like flowers and wither away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.14.2"><span class="content">like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do you fix your eye on them?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.14.3"><span class="content">Will you bring them</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:3 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">me</span></span></span><span class="content"> before you for judgment?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.14.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Who can bring what is pure from the impure?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.14.4"><span class="content">No one!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">A person&#8217;s days are determined;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.14.5"><span class="content">you have decreed the number of his months</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.14.5"><span class="content">and have set limits he cannot exceed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So look away from him and let him alone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.14.6"><span class="content">till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.14.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;At least there is hope for a tree:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="content">If it is cut down, it will sprout again,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="content">and its new shoots will not fail.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Its roots may grow old in the ground</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.14.8"><span class="content">and its stump die in the soil,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.14.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">yet at the scent of water it will bud</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.14.9"><span class="content">and put forth shoots like a plant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But a man dies and is laid low;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.14.10"><span class="content">he breathes his last and is no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.14.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">As the water of a lake dries up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.14.11"><span class="content">or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.14.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">so he lies down and does not rise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="content">till the heavens are no more, people will not awake</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="content">or be roused from their sleep.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;If only you would hide me in the grave</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="content">and conceal me till your anger has passed!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="content">If only you would set me a time</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="content">and then remember me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If someone dies, will they live again?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="content">All the days of my hard service</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="content">I will wait for my renewal</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">release</span></span></span><span class="content"> to come.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You will call and I will answer you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.14.15"><span class="content">you will long for the creature your hands have made.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.14.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Surely then you will count my steps</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.14.16"><span class="content">but not keep track of my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.14.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My offenses will be sealed up in a bag;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.14.17"><span class="content">you will cover over my sin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.14.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;But as a mountain erodes and crumbles</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.14.18"><span class="content">and as a rock is moved from its place,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.14.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">as water wears away stones</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="content">and torrents wash away the soil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="content">so you destroy a person&#8217;s hope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You overpower them once for all, and they are gone;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.14.20"><span class="content">you change their countenance and send them away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.14.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">If their children are honored, they do not know it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.14.21"><span class="content">if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.14.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">They feel but the pain of their own bodies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.14.22"><span class="content">and mourn only for themselves.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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