【Job】Chapter 13 << Last Chapter Next Chapter >>

13:1 Lo, all this my eye has seen; my ear has heard and perceived it.

13:2 What you know, I also know; I fall not short of you.

13:3 But I would speak with the Almighty; I wish to reason with God.

13:4 You are glossing over falsehoods and offering vain remedies, every one of you!

13:5 Oh, that you would be altogether silent! This for you would be wisdom.

13:6 Hear now the rebuke I shall utter and listen to the reproof from my lips.

13:7 Is it for God that you speak falsehood? Is it for him that you utter deceit?

13:8 Is it for him that you show partiality? Do you play advocate on behalf of God?

13:9 Will it be well when he shall search you out? Would you impose on him as one does on men?

13:10 He will openly rebuke you if even in secret you show partiality.

13:11 Surely will his majesty affright you and the dread of him fall upon you.

13:12 Your reminders are ashy maxims, your fabrications are mounds of clay.

13:13 Be silent, let me alone! that I may speak and give vent to my feelings.

13:14 I will carry my flesh between my teeth, and take my life in my hand.

13:15 Slay me though he might, I will wait for him; I will defend my conduct before him.

13:16 And this shall be my salvation, that no impious man can come into his presence.

13:17 Pay careful heed to my speech, and give my statement a hearing.

13:18 Behold, I have prepared my case, I know that I am in the right.

13:19 If anyone can make a case against me, then I shall be silent and die.

13:20 These things only do not use against me, then from your presence I need not hide:

13:21 Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not the terror of you frighten me.

13:22 Then call me, and I will respond; or let me speak first, and answer me.

13:23 What are my faults and my sins? My misdeeds and my sins make known to me!

13:24 Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?

13:25 Will you harass a wind-driven leaf, or pursue a withered straw?

13:26 For you draw up bitter indictments against me, and punish in me the faults of my youth.

13:27 You put my feet in the stocks; you watch all my paths and trace out all my footsteps.

13:28 Though he wears out like a leather bottle, like a garment that the moth has consumed?

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