Job - Chapter 13 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 1. Lo, mine eye hath seen all {cf15I this}, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
  • 2. What ye know, {cf15I the same} do I know also: I {cf15I am} not inferior unto you.
  • 3. Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
  • 4. But ye {cf15I are} forgers of lies, ye {cf15I are} all physicians of no value.
  • 5. O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
  • 6. Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
  • 7. Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
  • 8. Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
  • 9. Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye {cf15I so} mock him?
  • 10. He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
  • 11. Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
  • 12. Your remembrances {cf15I are} like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
  • 13. Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what {cf15I will}.
  • 14. Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
  • 15. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
  • 16. He also {cf15I shall be} my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
  • 17. Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
  • 18. Behold now, I have ordered {cf15I my} cause; I know that I shall be justified.
  • 19. Who {cf15I is} he {cf15I that} will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
  • 20. Only do not two {cf15I things} unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
  • 21. Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
  • 22. Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
  • 23. How many {cf15I are} mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
  • 24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
  • 25. Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
  • 26. For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
  • 27. Thou 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. And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
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