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Job 13
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1Behold, my eye has seen these things, and my ear has heard [them].
1Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2And I know all that you⌃ too know; and I have not less understanding than you.
2What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
3Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will.
3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4But you⌃ are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases.
4But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5But would that you⌃ were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end.
5O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
6But hear you⌃ the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips.
6Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7Do you⌃ not speak before the Lord, and utter deceit before him?
7Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
8Or will you⌃ draw back? nay do, you⌃ yourselves be judges.
8Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
9For [it were] well if he would thoroughly search you: for though doing all things [in your power] you⌃ should attach yourselves to him,
9Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
10he will not reprove you at all the less: but if moreover you⌃ should secretly respect persons,
10He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11shall not his whirlpool sweep you round, and terror from him fall upon you?
11Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body [like a body] of clay.
12Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from [my] anger,
13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
14while I may take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him.
15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
16And this shall turn to me for salvation; for fraud shall have no entrance before him.
16He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
17Hear, hear you⌃ my words, for I will declare in your hearing.
17Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
18Behold , I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just.
18Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire?
19Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
20But grant me two things : then I will not hide myself from your face.
20Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
21Withhold [your] hand from me: and let not your fear terrify me .
21Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
22Then shall you call , and I will listen to you: or you shall speak, and I will give you an answer .
22Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
23How many are my sins and my transgressions? teach me what they are.
23How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24Therefore hide you yourself from me, and deem me your enemy?
24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
25Will you be startled [at me], as [at] a leaf shaken by the wind? or will you set yourself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?
25Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
26for you have written evil things against me, and you have compassed me with the sins of my youth.
26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
27And you have placed my foot in the stocks; and you have watched all my works, and have penetrated my heels .
27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
28[I am as] that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth -eaten garment.
28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.