Job Chapter 13 (NKJV)
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1. Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and understood it. | |
2. What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. | |
3. But I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God. | |
4. But you forgers of lies, You are all worthless physicians. | |
5. Oh, that you would be silent, And it would be your wisdom! | |
6. Now hear my reasoning, And heed the pleadings of my lips. | |
7. Will you speak wickedly for God, And talk deceitfully for Him? | |
8. Will you show partiality for Him? Will you contend for God? | |
9. Will it be well when He searches you out? Or can you mock Him as one mocks a man? | |
10. He will surely rebuke you If you secretly show partiality. | |
11. Will not His excellence make you afraid, And the dread of Him fall upon you? | |
12. Your platitudes are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay. | |
13. Hold your peace with me, and let me speak, Then let come on me what may! | |
14. Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hands? | |
15. Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him. | |
16. He also shall be my salvation, For a hypocrite could not come before Him. | |
17. Listen carefully to my speech, And to my declaration with your ears. | |
18. See now, I have prepared my case, I know that I shall be vindicated. | |
19. Who is he who will contend with me? If now I hold my tongue, I perish. | |
20. Only two things do not do to me, Then I will not hide myself from You | |
21. Withdraw Your hand far from me, And let not the dread of You make me afraid. | |
22. Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, then You respond to me. | |
23. How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin. | |
24. Why do You hide Your face, And regard me as Your enemy? | |
25. Will You frighten a leaf driven to and fro? And will You pursue dry stubble? | |
26. For You write bitter things against me, And make me inherit the iniquities of my youth. | |
27. You put my feet in the stocks, And watch closely all my paths. You set a limit for the soles of my feet. | |
28. Man decays like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten. |
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