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