Job Chapter 13

13 : 1 See, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

13 : 2 What you know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior to you.

13 : 3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

13 : 4 But you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value.

13 : 5 O that you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

13 : 6 Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

13 : 7 Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

13 : 8 Will you accept his person? will you contend for God?

13 : 9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?

13 : 10 He will surely reprove you, if you do secretly accept persons.

13 : 11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall on you?

13 : 12 Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

13 : 13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

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

13 : 15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him.

13 : 16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

13 : 17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

13 : 18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

13 : 19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

13 : 20 Only do not two things to me: then will I not hide myself from you.

13 : 21 Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid.

13 : 22 Then call you, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer you me.

13 : 23 How many are my iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

13 : 24 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

13 : 25 Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? and will you pursue the dry stubble?

13 : 26 For you write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

13 : 27 You put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly to all my paths; you set a print on the heels of my feet.

13 : 28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth eaten.