Job - Chapter 13 | English Standard Version

  • 1. "Behold, 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 argument 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 defenses are defenses of clay.
  • 13. "Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
  • 14. Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?
  • 15. Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.
  • 16. This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him.
  • 17. Keep listening to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.
  • 18. Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.
  • 19. Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
  • 20. Only grant me two things, 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 limit for the soles of my feet.
  • 28. Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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