Job 13:1
“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
Job 13:2
What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
Job 13:3
“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
Job 13:4
But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
Job 13:5
Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
Job 13:6
Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
Job 13:7
Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
Job 13:8
Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
Job 13:9
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
Job 13:10
He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.
Job 13:11
Won’t his majesty make you afraid and his dread fall on you?
Job 13:12
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
Job 13:13
“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. 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 will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him.
Job 13:17
Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.
Job 13:18
See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
Job 13:19
Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
Job 13:20
“Only don’t do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face:
Job 13:21
withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
Job 13:22
Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.
Job 13:23
How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
Job 13:24
Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?
Job 13:25
Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
Job 13:26
For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
Job 13:27
You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
Job 13:28
though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.