Job 13:1
Lo, all--hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.
Job 13:2
According to your knowledge I have known--also I. I am not fallen more than you.
Job 13:3
Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.
Job 13:4
And yet, ye are forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought--all of you,
Job 13:5
O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
Job 13:6
Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,
Job 13:7
For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?
Job 13:8
His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?
Job 13:9
Is it good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?
Job 13:10
He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.
Job 13:11
Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?
Job 13:12
Your remembrances are similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
Job 13:13
Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?
Job 13:14
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?
Job 13:15
Lo, He doth slay me--I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.
Job 13:16
Also--He is to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.
Job 13:17
Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears.
Job 13:18
Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.
Job 13:19
Who is he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
Job 13:20
Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden.
Job 13:21
Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.
Job 13:22
And call Thou, and I--I answer, Or--I speak, and answer Thou me.
Job 13:23
How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.
Job 13:24
Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?
Job 13:25
A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?
Job 13:26
For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:
Job 13:27
And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,
Job 13:28
And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.