Geneva1599 - Job - 13

13:1  Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it.

13:2  I knowe also as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto you.

13:3  But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.

13:4  For in deede ye forge lyes, and all you are physitions of no value.

13:5  Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!

13:6  Nowe heare my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments of my lips.

13:7  Will ye speake wickedly for Gods defence, and talke deceitfully for his cause?

13:8  Will ye accept his person? or will ye contende for God?

13:9  Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?

13:10  He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly accept any person.

13:11  Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?

13:12  Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.

13:13  Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.

13:14  Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soule in mine hande?

13:15  Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.

13:16  He shalbe my saluation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him.

13:17  Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke.

13:18  Beholde nowe: if I prepare me to iudgement, I knowe that I shalbe iustified.

13:19  Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.

13:20  But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.

13:21  Withdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide.

13:22  Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.

13:23  Howe many are mine iniquities and sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne.

13:24  Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?

13:25  Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and from? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?

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

13:27  Thou puttest my feete also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in ye heeles of my feet.

13:28  Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.