| 13 | Job | ||
| 1 | "Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it. | ||
| 2 | What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. | ||
| 3 | But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God. | ||
| 4 | As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all. | ||
| 5 | Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom! | ||
| 6 | Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips. | ||
| 7 | Will you speak falsely for God, and speak deceitfully for him? | ||
| 8 | Will you show partiality toward him, will you plead the case for God? | ||
| 9 | Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man? | ||
| 10 | He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality. | ||
| 11 | Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you? | ||
| 12 | Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defences are defences of clay. | ||
| 13 | "Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may. | ||
| 14 | I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand. | ||
| 15 | Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope; yet I will defend my ways to his face. | ||
| 16 | This will be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him. | ||
| 17 | Listen carefully to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears. | ||
| 18 | Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated. | ||
| 19 | Who is there that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die. | ||
| 20 | Only grant two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face: | ||
| 21 | withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me. | ||
| 22 | Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me. | ||
| 23 | How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin. | ||
| 24 | Why do you hide your face, and count me as your enemy? | ||
| 25 | Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff? | ||
| 26 | For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth. | ||
| 27 | You put my feet in the stocks, and watch all my paths; you set a bound to the soles of my feet. | ||
| 28 | Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten. | ||
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