Job 13

Chapter 13

Behold my eye hath seen all these things, and my ear hath heard them, and I have understood them all.

²According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you.

³But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

⁴Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.

⁵And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.

⁶Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my lips.

⁷Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?

⁸Do you accept this person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?

⁹Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings?

¹⁰He shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person.

¹¹As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you.

¹²Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.

¹³Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.

¹⁴Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?

¹⁵Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.

¹⁶And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before his presence.

¹⁷Hear ye my speech, and receive with your ears hidden truths.

¹⁸If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.

¹⁹Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?

²⁰Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not be hid:

²¹Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me.

²²Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me.

²³How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my crimes and offenses.

²⁴Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?

²⁵Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.

²⁶For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me for the sins of my youth.

²⁷Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:

²⁸Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is motheaten.