Job - Chapter 13 | New King James 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 reason with God.
  • 4. But you forgers of lies, You are all worthless physicians.
  • 5. Oh, that you would be silent, And it would be your wisdom!
  • 6. Now hear my reasoning, And heed the pleadings of my lips.
  • 7. Will you speak wickedly for God, And talk deceitfully for Him?
  • 8. Will you show partiality for Him? Will you contend for God?
  • 9. Will it be well when He searches you out? Or can you mock Him as one mocks a man?
  • 10. He will surely rebuke you If you secretly show partiality.
  • 11. Will not His excellence make you afraid, And the dread of Him fall upon you?
  • 12. Your platitudes are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
  • 13. "Hold your peace with me, and let me speak, Then let come on me what may!
  • 14. Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hands?
  • 15. Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him.
  • 16. He also shall be my salvation, For a hypocrite could not come before Him.
  • 17. Listen carefully to my speech, And to my declaration with your ears.
  • 18. See now, I have prepared my case, I know that I shall be vindicated.
  • 19. Who is he who will contend with me? If now I hold my tongue, I perish.
  • 20. "Only two things do not do to me, Then I will not hide myself from You:
  • 21. Withdraw Your hand far from me, And let not the dread of You make me afraid.
  • 22. Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, then You respond to me.
  • 23. How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
  • 24. Why do You hide Your face, And regard me as Your enemy?
  • 25. Will You frighten a leaf driven to and fro? And will You pursue dry stubble?
  • 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 closely all my paths. You set a limit {cf2super [16]} for the soles of my feet.
  • 28. "Man {cf2super [17]} decays like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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