Job 13 — GNV
13Verse 1Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it.Verse 2I knowe also as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto you.Verse 3But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.Verse 4For in deede ye forge lyes, and all you are physitions of no value.Verse 5Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!Verse 6Nowe heare my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments of my lips.Verse 7Will ye speake wickedly for Gods defence, and talke deceitfully for his cause?Verse 8Will ye accept his person? or will ye contende for God?Verse 9Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?Verse 10He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly accept any person.Verse 11Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?Verse 12Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.Verse 13Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.Verse 14Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soule in mine hande?Verse 15Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.Verse 16He shalbe my saluation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him.Verse 17Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke.Verse 18Beholde nowe: if I prepare me to iudgement, I knowe that I shalbe iustified.Verse 19Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.Verse 20But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.Verse 21Withdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide.Verse 22Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.Verse 23Howe many are mine iniquities and sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne.Verse 24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?Verse 25Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and from? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?Verse 26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth.Verse 27Thou puttest my feete also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in ye heeles of my feet.Verse 28Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.