LEB - Job - 13

13:1  “Look, my eye has seen everything; my ear has heard and has understood it.

13:2  ⌞What you know⌟, I myself also know— I am not more inferior than you.

13:3  But I would speak to Shaddai, and I desire to argue with God.

13:4  “But you ⌞whitewash with lies⌟; all of you are ⌞worthless healers⌟.

13:5  ⌞O that⌟ you would keep completely silent, and that it would become wisdom for you.

13:6  Please hear my argument, and listen attentively to the pleadings of my lips.

13:7  “Will you speak falsely for God? And will you speak deceitfully for him?

13:8  ⌞Will you show partiality for him⌟? Or do you want to plead God’s case?

13:9  Will it be well, if he examines you? Or can you deceive him like deceiving a human being?

13:10  “Surely he will rebuke you if ⌞you show partiality⌟ in secret.

13:11  Will not his majesty terrify you, and his dread fall upon you?

13:12  Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

13:13  “⌞Let me have silence⌟, and I myself will speak, and let come over me whatever may.

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

13:15  Look, though he kill me, I will hope in him; however, I will defend my ways ⌞before him⌟.

13:16  Moreover, this is salvation to me, that the godless would not come ⌞before him⌟.

13:17  “Listen carefully to my words, and let my exposition be in your ears.

13:18  Please look, I have prepared my case; I know that I myself will be vindicated.

13:19  Who is he who will contend with me? For ⌞then⌟ I would be silent, and I would pass away.

13:20  “Only you must not do these two things to me; then I will not hide from your face:

13:21  withdraw your hand from me, and let not your dread terrify me.

13:22  Then call, and I myself will answer; or let me speak, then reply to me.

13:23  “⌞How many⌟ are my iniquities and sins? Make known to me my transgression and my sin.

13:24  Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

13:25  Will you terrify a blown leaf? And will you pursue dry stubble?

13:26  “Indeed, you write bitter things against me, and you make me reap the iniquities of my childhood.

13:27  And you put my feet in the block, and you watch all my paths; you carve a mark on the soles of my feet.

13:28  And he himselfwastes away like something rotten, like a garment that the moth has eaten.