Job 13–14

13 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this,

Mine ear hath heard and understood it.

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

aI am not inferior unto you.

3  bSurely I would speak to the Almighty,

And I desire to creason with God.

4  But ye are dforgers of lies,

eYe are all physicians fof no value.

5  O that ye would altogether ghold your peace!

And it should be your wisdom.

6  Hear now my hreasoning,

And hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

7  Will ye speak iwickedly for God?

And talk ideceitfully for him?

8  Will ye kaccept his person?

Will ye lcontend for God?

9  mIs it good that he should nsearch you out?

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

10  He will surely creprove you,

If ye do secretly kaccept persons.

11  Shall not his pexcellency make you afraid?

And his dread fall upon you?

12  Your 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.

14  Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth,

And xput my life in mine hand?

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

But I will †maintain mine own ways abefore him.

16  He also shall be my salvation:

For an hypocrite shall not come before him.

17  aaHear diligently my speech,

And my bdeclaration with your ears.

18  Behold now, I have cordered my cause;

I know that I shall be justified.

19  dWho is he that will plead with me?

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

20  Only do not two things unto me:

Then ewill I not hide myself from thee.

21  fWithdraw thine hand far from me:

And flet not thy dread make me afraid.

22  gThen call thou, and I will answer:

Or let me speak, and hanswer thou me.

23  How many are mine iniquities and sins?

Make ime to know my transgression and my sin.

24  jWherefore hidest thou thy face,

And kholdest me for thine enemy?

25  Wilt thou break la leaf driven to and fro?

And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

26  For thou mwritest bitter things against me,

And makest me to possess nthe iniquities of my youth.

27  oThou puttest my feet also in the stocks,

And †lookest narrowly unto all my paths;

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

28  And he, as a qrotten thing, consumeth,

As a garment that is rmoth eaten.

14 Man that is aborn of a woman

Is †of few days, and bfull of trouble.

2  He cometh forth like ca flower, and dis cut down:

He fleeth also as ea shadow, and continueth not.

3  And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one,

And fbringest me into judgment with thee?

4  †Who can gbring a clean thing out of an unclean?

hNot one.

5  Seeing his days are determined,

The number of his months are with thee,

Thou hast appointed his ubounds that he cannot pass;

6  iTurn from him, that he may †rest,

Till he shall jaccomplish, kas an hireling, his day.

7  For there is hope of a tree,

If it be cut down, kkthat it will lsprout again,

And that the mtender branch thereof will not cease.

8  Though the root thereof wax old in the earth,

And the nstock thereof die in the ground;

9  Yet through the scent of water it will bud,

And bring forth oboughs like a plant.

10  pBut man dieth, and †wasteth away:

Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and qwhere is he?

11  As qqthe waters fail from the sea,

qqAnd the flood decayeth and drieth up:

12  So man lieth down, and riseth not:

rTill the heavens be no more, they shall not awake,

Nor be raised out of their sleep.

13  O that thou wouldest shide me in the grave,

That thou wouldest skeep me secret, tuntil thy wrath be past,

That thou wouldest appoint me ua set time, and remember me!

14  wIf a man die, shall he live again?

All the days of my xappointed time ywill I wait,

Till my zchange come.

15  aThou shalt call, and I will answer thee:

Thou wilt have a desire to bthe work of thine hands.

16  For now thou cnumberest my steps:

Dost thou not dwatch over my sin?

17  My transgression is esealed up in a bag,

And thou fsewest up mine iniquity.

18  And surely the mountain falling †cometh to nought,

And gthe rock is removed out of his place.

19  The waters hwear the stones:

Thou †washest away ithe things which grow out of the dust of the earth;

And thou destroyest the hope of man.

20  Thou kprevailest lfor ever against him, and mhe passeth:

Thou changest his countenance, and nsendest him away.

21  His sons ocome to honour, and phe knoweth it not;

And they oare brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

22  But his flesh upon him shall have pain,

And his soul within him shall mourn.