Job 13 · Clearspring

Job Prepares His Case

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

Job Prepares His Case

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