Jubilee2000 - Job - 13

13:1  Behold, my eyes have seen all [this]; my ears have heard and understood it.

13:2  As you know it, I know it; I [am] not inferior unto you.

13:3  But I would speak with the Almighty, and I desired to dispute with God.

13:4  That ye are certainly forgers of lies; ye [are] all physicians of no value.

13:5  O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be unto you [instead of] wisdom.

13:6  Hear now my dispute, and hearken to the arguments of my lips.

13:7  Are ye to speak iniquity for God? Are ye to speak deceitfully for him?

13:8  Are ye to bring honour unto him? Are ye to contend for God?

13:9  Would it be good for him to search you out? As one man mocks another, do ye [so] mock him?

13:10  He will reprove you severely, if in secret you give him such honour.

13:11  Certainly his excellency should make you afraid, and his dread should fall upon you.

13:12  Your memories shall be compared unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

13:13  Listen to me, and I will speak, and afterward let come on me what [will].

13:14  Why shall I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in the palm of my [hand]?

13:15  Though he slay me, yet I will trust in him; but I will defend my ways before him.

13:16  He also [shall be] my saving health; for the hypocrite shall not enter into his presence.

13:17  Hear diligently my reason and my declaration with your ears.

13:18  Behold now, if I draw near unto the judgment; I know that I shall be justified.

13:19  Who [is] he [that] will contend with me? For now, if I remain silent, I shall die.

13:20  At the least, grant me these two things; then I will not hide myself from thee:

13:21  withdraw thy hand from me; and let not thy dread make me afraid.

13:22  Then call, 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 dost thou hide thy face, and hold me for thine enemy?

13:25  Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? Wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

13:26  Why dost thou write bitter things against me and make me carry the iniquities of my youth.

13:27  Thou dost put my feet also in the stocks and look narrowly unto all my paths; thou dost set a print upon the heels of my feet.

13:28  And [man], is as a rotten thing that is being consumed, as a garment that is moth eaten.: