Job 13
Job 13
“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it. Verse 2. What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you. Verse 3. “Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God. Verse 4. But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value. Verse 5. Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise. Verse 6. Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips. Verse 7. Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him? Verse 8. Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God? Verse 9. Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him? Verse 10. He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality. Verse 11. Won’t his majesty make you afraid and his dread fall on you? Verse 12. Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay. Verse 13. “Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will. Verse 14. Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand? Verse 15. Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him. Verse 16. This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him. Verse 17. Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears. Verse 18. See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous. Verse 19. Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit. Verse 20. “Only don’t do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face: Verse 21. withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid. Verse 22. Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me. Verse 23. How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin. Verse 24. Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy? Verse 25. Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble? Verse 26. For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth. Verse 27. You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet, Verse 28. though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.