Job Capítulo 13
The question" Why do innocent people suffer?" Is addressed in this biblical story.
A Conservative Version
13 : 1 Lo, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
13 : 2 What ye know, I also know; 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 ye are forgers of lies. Ye are all physicians of no value.
13 : 5 O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be your wisdom.
13 : 6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
13 : 7 Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
13 : 8 Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God?
13 : 9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as deceiving a man, will ye deceive him?
13 : 10 He will surely reprove you if ye secretly show partiality.
13 : 11 Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?
13 : 12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
13 : 13 Be quiet. Let me alone that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
13 : 14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
13 : 15 Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.
13 : 16 This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before him.
13 : 17 Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.
13 : 18 Behold now, I have set my case in order. I know that I am righteous.
13 : 19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would keep silent and give up the spirit.
13 : 20 Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from thy face:
13 : 21 Withdraw thy hand far from me, and do not let thy dread make me afraid.
13 : 22 Then call thou, and I will answer, or let me speak, and answer thou me.
13 : 23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
13 : 24 Why do thou hide thy face, and reckon me for thine enemy?
13 : 25 Will thou harass a driven leaf? And will thou pursue the dry stubble?
13 : 26 For thou write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.
13 : 27 Thou also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. Thou set a bound to the soles of my feet.
13 : 28 Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.