Job 13:1
Lo, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
Job 13:2
What ye know, I also know; I am not inferior to 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 be silent! And it would be your wisdom.
Job 13:6
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Job 13:7
Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
Job 13:8
Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God?
Job 13:9
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as deceiving a man, will ye deceive him?
Job 13:10
He will surely reprove you if ye secretly show partiality.
Job 13:11
Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?
Job 13:12
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
Job 13:13
Be quiet. Let me alone that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Job 13:14
Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
Job 13:15
Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.
Job 13:16
This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before him.
Job 13:17
Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.
Job 13:18
Behold now, I have set my case in order. I know that I am righteous.
Job 13:19
Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would keep silent and give up the spirit.
Job 13:20
Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from thy face:
Job 13:21
Withdraw thy hand far from me, and do not let 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 my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Job 13:24
Why do thou hide thy face, and reckon me for thine enemy?
Job 13:25
Will thou harass a driven leaf? And will thou pursue the dry stubble?
Job 13:26
For thou write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.
Job 13:27
Thou also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. Thou set a bound to the soles of my feet.
Job 13:28
Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.