Job 13

13Lo, mine eye hath seen all this,

Mine ear hath heard and understood it.

²What ye know, the same do I know also:

^aI am not inferior unto you.

^3bSurely I would speak to the Almighty,

And I desire to ^creason with God.

⁴But ye are ^dforgers of lies,

^eYe are all physicians ^fof no value.

⁵O that ye would altogether ^ghold your peace!

And it should be your wisdom.

⁶Hear now my ^hreasoning,

And hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

⁷Will ye speak ⁱwickedly for God?

And talk ⁱdeceitfully for him?

⁸Will ye ^kaccept his person?

Will ye ^lcontend for God?

^9mIs it good that he should ⁿsearch you out?

Or as one man ^omocketh another, do ye so mock him?

¹⁰He will surely ^creprove you,

If ye do secretly ^kaccept persons.

¹¹Shall not his ^pexcellency make you afraid?

And his dread fall upon you?

¹²Your ^qremembrances are ^rlike unto ^sashes,

Your bodies to bodies of clay.

^13†Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak,

And let ^tcome on me ^uwhat will.

¹⁴Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth,

And ^xput my life in mine hand?

^15yThough he slay me, yet will I ^ztrust in him:

But I will ^†maintain mine own ways ^abefore him.

¹⁶He also shall be my salvation:

For an hypocrite shall not come before him.

^17aaHear diligently my speech,

And my ^bdeclaration with your ears.

¹⁸Behold now, I have ^cordered my cause;

I know that I shall be justified.

^19dWho is he that will plead with me?

For now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

²⁰Only do not two things unto me:

Then ^ewill I not hide myself from thee.

^21fWithdraw thine hand far from me:

And ^flet not thy dread make me afraid.

^22gThen call thou, and I will answer:

Or let me speak, and ^hanswer thou me.

²³How many are mine iniquities and sins?

Make ⁱme to know my transgression and my sin.

^24jWherefore hidest thou thy face,

And ^kholdest me for thine enemy?

²⁵Wilt thou break ^la leaf driven to and fro?

And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

²⁶For thou ^mwritest bitter things against me,

And makest me to possess ⁿthe iniquities of my youth.

^27oThou puttest my feet also in the stocks,

And ^†lookest narrowly unto all my paths;

Thou ^psettest a print upon the ^†heels of my feet.

²⁸And he, as a ^qrotten thing, consumeth,

As a garment that is ^rmoth eaten.