ACV - Job - 13

13:1  Lo, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.

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

13:3  Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

13:4  But ye are forgers of lies. Ye are all physicians of no value.

13:5  O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be your wisdom.

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

13:7  Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

13:8  Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God?

13:9  Is it good that he should search you out? Or as deceiving a man, will ye deceive him?

13:10  He will surely reprove you if ye secretly show partiality.

13:11  Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?

13:12  Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.

13:13  Be quiet. Let me alone that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

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

13:15  Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

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

13:17  Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.

13:18  Behold now, I have set my case in order. I know that I am righteous.

13:19  Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would keep silent and give up the spirit.

13:20  Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from thy face:

13:21  Withdraw thy hand far from me, and do not let thy dread make me afraid.

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

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

13:24  Why do thou hide thy face, and reckon me for thine enemy?

13:25  Will thou harass a driven leaf? And will thou pursue the dry stubble?

13:26  For thou write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.

13:27  Thou also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. Thou set a bound to the soles of my feet.

13:28  Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.