JOB 13
1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5 Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
8 Will ye respect his person? will ye contend for God?
9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly respect persons.
11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?
12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your defences are defences of clay.
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what wilt.
14 Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15 Though he slay me, yet will I wait for him: nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.
16 This also shall be my salvation; for a godless man shall not come before him.
17 Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.
18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I am righteous.
19 Who is he that will contend with me? for now shall I hold my peace and give up the ghost.
20 Only do not two things unto me, then will I not hide myself from thy face:
21 Withdraw thine hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid.
22 Then call thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer thou me.
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
25 Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth:
27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou drawest thee a line about the soles of my feet:
28 Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Cross-references
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- 1Job 5:9–16, Job 12:9–25, Job 4:12, Job 42:3–6, 1Jn 1:3, Job 8:8–10, Psa 78:3–4, Job 15:17–18
- 2Job 12:3, 2Co 11:16–18, Job 42:7, 2Co 12:11, Job 40:4–5, Job 37:2, Job 34:35, 2Co 11:4–5
- 3Isa 41:21, Isa 1:18–20, Job 13:22, Job 9:3, Job 31:35, Job 9:14–15, Job 9:34–35, Mic 6:2
- 4Psa 119:69, Job 16:2, Jer 23:32, Jer 8:22, Jer 6:14, Mrk 5:26, Jer 30:13, Jer 46:11
- 5Pro 17:28, Jas 1:19, Job 13:13, Ecc 5:3, Job 19:2, Job 18:2, Job 16:3, Job 21:2–3
- 6Job 34:2, Pro 8:6–7, Jdg 9:7, Job 33:1–3, Job 21:2–3
- 7Job 36:4, Job 27:4, Jhn 16:2, Job 32:21–22, Job 11:2–4, 2Co 4:2, Rom 3:5–8, Job 4:7
- 8Exo 23:2–3, Pro 24:23, Lev 19:15, Job 34:19, Mal 2:9, Job 32:21
- 9Gal 6:7–8, Jer 17:10, Psa 44:21, Job 34:36, Psa 139:23, Job 12:16, Job 17:2, Isa 28:22
- 10Jas 2:9, Psa 82:2, Psa 50:21–22, Job 42:7–8
- 11Job 31:23, Psa 119:120, Exo 15:16, Isa 8:13, Jer 5:22, Mat 10:28, Job 13:21, Rev 15:3–4
- 12Gen 2:7, 2Co 5:1, Job 18:17, Pro 10:7, Exo 17:14, Psa 34:16, Gen 18:27, Job 4:19
- 13Job 7:11, Job 13:5, Job 21:3, Job 10:1, Job 6:9–10, Job 7:15–16
- 14Jdg 12:3, Psa 119:109, Job 18:4, 1Sa 19:5, 1Sa 28:21, Ecc 4:5, Isa 9:20, Isa 49:26
- 15Psa 23:4, Job 23:10, Job 19:25–28, Rom 8:38–39, 1Jn 3:20, Job 27:5, Job 23:4–7, Pro 14:32
- 16Isa 12:1–2, Psa 118:21, Isa 33:14, Job 36:13, Job 8:13, Exo 15:2, Psa 118:14, Jer 3:23
- 17Job 21:2, Job 33:1, Job 13:6
- 18Job 23:4, Job 9:2–3, Job 16:21, Job 40:7–8, Isa 43:26, 2Co 1:12, Job 9:20, Rom 8:33–34
- 19Isa 50:7–8, Rom 8:33, Job 7:11, Job 10:8, Jer 20:9, Job 19:5, Job 13:13, Job 33:5–7
- 20Job 9:34–35, Psa 139:12, Rev 6:15–16, Gen 3:8–10
- 21Job 9:34, Psa 39:10, Job 33:7, Job 13:11, Job 10:20, Psa 119:120, Job 22:15–17
- 22Job 14:15, Job 38:3, Job 9:32, Job 40:4–5, Job 9:16, Job 42:3–6
- 23Job 36:8–9, Psa 139:23, Psa 44:20–21, Job 22:5
- 24Job 19:11, Lam 2:5, Psa 13:1, Isa 8:17, Psa 44:24, Job 33:10, Psa 88:14, Deu 32:20
- 25Lev 26:36, Job 21:18, Mat 12:20, 1Sa 24:14, Job 14:3, Isa 17:13
- 26Psa 25:7, Jhn 5:14, Pro 5:11–13, Job 20:11, Jhn 5:5, Job 3:20, Rut 1:20, Jer 31:19
- 27Job 33:11, Job 2:7, 2Ch 16:10–12, Pro 7:22, Act 16:24, Job 14:16, Job 10:6, Job 16:9
- 28Psa 39:11, Job 4:19, Hos 5:12, Job 30:17–19, Num 12:12, Job 30:29–30