AB - Job - 13

13:1  Behold, my eye has seen these things, and my ear has heard them.

13:2  And I know all that you know, too; and I have no less understanding than you.

13:3  Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before Him, if He will.

13:4  But you are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases.

13:5  Oh that you would be silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end.

13:6  But hear now the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips.

13:7  Do you not speak before the Lord, and utter deceit before Him?

13:8  Or will you draw back? Nay do, you yourselves be judges.

13:9  For it were well if He would thoroughly search you: for though doing all things in your power you should attach yourselves to Him,

13:10  He will surely not reprove you, but if you should secretly show partiality,

13:11  shall not His whirlpool sweep around you, and terror from Him fall upon you?

13:12  And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body like a body of clay.

13:13  Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from my anger,

13:14  while I may take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

13:15  Though the Mighty One should lay His hand upon me, forasmuch as He has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before Him.

13:16  And this shall turn to me for salvation, for fraud shall have no entrance before Him.

13:17  Hear, hear my words, for I will declare in your hearing.

13:18  Behold, I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just.

13:19  For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire?

13:20  But grant me two things: then I will not hide myself from Your face.

13:21  Withhold Your hand from me, and let not Your fear terrify me.

13:22  Then shall You call, and I will listen to You: or You shall speak, and I will give You an answer.

13:23  How many are my sins and my transgressions? Teach me what they are.

13:24  Why do You hide Yourself from me, and regard me as Your enemy?

13:25  Will You be startled at me, as at a leaf shaken by the wind? Or will You set Yourself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?

13:26  For You have written evil things against me, and You have compassed me with the sins of my youth.

13:27  And You have placed my foot in the stocks, and You have watched all my works, and have penetrated my heels.

13:28  I am as that which grows old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment.