| Job 13:1 |
Indeed, my eye has seen all [this;] / My ear has heard and understood it. |
| Job 13:2 |
What you know, I also know; / I am not inferior to you. |
| Job 13:3 |
But I would speak to the Almighty, / And I desire to argue with God. |
| Job 13:4 |
Yet you are plasterers of lies; / Physicians of no value are you all. |
| Job 13:5 |
Oh that you would be altogether silent, / And [this] would be your wisdom! |
| Job 13:6 |
Hear now my argument, / And hearken to the contentions of my lips. |
| Job 13:7 |
Will you speak wrongly for God / And speak deceitfully for Him? |
| Job 13:8 |
Will you be partial to Him? / Will you contend for God? |
| Job 13:9 |
Will it be well with you when He searches you out? / Or will you deceive Him as one might deceive a man? |
| Job 13:10 |
He will surely reprove you / If you are secretly partial. |
| Job 13:11 |
Will not His majesty make you afraid / And His dread fall on you? |
| Job 13:12 |
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes; / Your defenses are defenses of clay. |
| Job 13:13 |
Be silent before me, and I myself will speak; / And let come on me what may. |
| Job 13:14 |
I will take my flesh in my teeth / And put my life in my hand. |
| Job 13:15 |
Indeed, He will kill me; I have no hope. / Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him. |
| Job 13:16 |
This also will be my salvation, / That no profane man may come before Him. |
| Job 13:17 |
Hear carefully my words, / And let my declaration be in your ears. |
| Job 13:18 |
Here now, I have arranged my case; / I know that I will be vindicated. |
| Job 13:19 |
Who will contend with me? / For then I would be silent and die. |
| Job 13:20 |
Only do not do two things to me, / Then I will not hide from Your face: |
| Job 13:21 |
Withdraw Your hand far from me, / And do not let Your terror frighten me. |
| Job 13:22 |
Then call, and I will answer; / Or let me speak, and You respond to me. |
| Job 13:23 |
How many are my iniquities and sins? / Make my transgression and my sin known to me. |
| Job 13:24 |
Why do You hide Your face / And consider me as Your enemy? |
| Job 13:25 |
Will You harass a driven leaf / And pursue dry chaff? |
| Job 13:26 |
For You write bitter things against me / And cause me to inherit the iniquities of my youth; |
| Job 13:27 |
And You put my feet in stocks / And mark all my paths; / You set a limit for the soles of my feet. |
| Job 13:28 |
And such a one is like some rotten thing that wastes away, / Like a garment eaten by moths. |