Darby - Job - 13

13:1  Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it.

13:2  What ye know, I know also: I am not inferior to you.

13:3  But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning withGod;

13:4  For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

13:5  Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom.

13:6  Hear now my defence, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

13:7  Will ye speak unrighteously forGod? and for him speak deceit?

13:8  Will ye accept his person? will ye contend forGod?

13:9  Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?

13:10  He will certainly reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

13:11  Shall not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?

13:12  Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.

13:13  Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what [will]!

13:14  Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

13:15  Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him.

13:16  This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face.

13:17  Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears.

13:18  Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified.

13:19  Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.

13:20  Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee.

13:21  Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid:

13:22  Then call, and I will answer; or I will speak, and answer thou me.

13:23  How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.

13:24  Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?

13:25  Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?

13:26  For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth;

13:27  And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; —

13:28  One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.