Job 13

1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it.

Lo! all this mine eye hath seen; Mine ear hath heard and understood it.

2 What ye know, I know also: I am not inferior to you.

What ye know, I know also; I am not inferior to you.

3 But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with God;

But O that I might speak with the Almighty! O that I might reason with God!

4 For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

For ye are forgers of lies; Physicians of no value, all of you!

5 Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom.

O that ye would altogether hold your peace! This, truly, would be wisdom in you.

6 Hear now my defence, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

Hear, I pray you, my arguments; Attend to the pleadings of my lips!

7 Will ye speak unrighteously for God? and for him speak deceit?

Will ye speak falsehood for God? Will ye utter deceit for him?

8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

Will ye be partial to his person? Will ye contend earnestly for God?

9 Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?

Will it be well for you, if he search you thoroughly? Can ye deceive him, as one may deceive a man?

10 He will certainly reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

Surely he will rebuke you, If ye secretly have respect to persons.

11 Shall not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?

Doth not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall upon you?

12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.

Your maxims are words of dust; Your fortresses are fortresses of clay.

13 Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what [will]!

Hold your peace, and let me speak: And then come upon me what will!

14 Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

15 Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him.

Lo! he slayeth me, and I have no hope! Yet will I justify my ways before him.

16 This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face.

This also shall be my deliverance; For no unrighteous man will come before him.

17 Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears.

Hear attentively my words, And give ear to my declaration!

18 Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified.

Behold, I have now set in order my cause; I know that I am innocent.

19 Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.

Who is he that can contend with me? For then would I hold my peace, and die!

20 Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee.

Only do not unto me two things, Then will I not hide myself from thy presence;

21 Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid:

Let not thy hand be heavy upon me, And let not thy terrors make me afraid:

22 Then call, and I will answer; or I will speak, and answer thou me.

Then call upon me, and I will answer; Or I will speak, and answer thou me.

23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.

How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my faults and transgressions.

24 Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?

Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, And account me as thine enemy?

25 Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?

Wilt thou put in fear the driven leaf? Wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth;

For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me inherit the sins of my youth.

27 And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; —

Yea, thou puttest my feet in the stocks, And waterest all my paths; Thou hemmest in the soles of my feet.

28 One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.

And I, like an abandoned thing, shall waste away; Like a garment which is moth-eaten.