Job 13:1
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this , mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Job 13:2
What ye know, I know also: I am not inferior to you.
Job 13:3
But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with *God;
Job 13:4
For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Job 13:5
Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom.
Job 13:6
Hear now my defence, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Job 13:7
Will ye speak unrighteously for *God? and for him speak deceit?
Job 13:8
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for *God?
Job 13:9
Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?
Job 13:10
He will certainly reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Job 13:11
Shall not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?
Job 13:12
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
Job 13:13
Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what will !
Job 13:14
Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
Job 13:15
Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him.
Job 13:16
This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face.
Job 13:17
Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears.
Job 13:18
Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Job 13:19
Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.
Job 13:20
Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee.
Job 13:21
Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid:
Job 13:22
Then call, and I will answer; or I will 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 dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?
Job 13:25
Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue 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
And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; --
Job 13:28
One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.