Job 13:1 ←
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Job 13:2 ←
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
Job 13:3 ←
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Job 13:4 ←
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Job 13:5 ←
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Job 13:6 ←
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Job 13:7 ←
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
Job 13:8 ←
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Job 13:9 ←
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
Job 13:10 ←
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Job 13:11 ←
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
Job 13:12 ←
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Job 13:13 ←
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Job 13:14 ←
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Job 13:15 ←
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Job 13:16 ←
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
Job 13:17 ←
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
Job 13:18 ←
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Job 13:19 ←
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
Job 13:20 ←
Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
Job 13:21 ←
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Job 13:22 ←
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Job 13:23 ←
How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Job 13:24 ←
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Job 13:25 ←
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Job 13:26 ←
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Job 13:27 ←
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.
Job 13:28 ←
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
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