Job 13 — JPSTN
13Verse 1Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.Verse 2What ye know, do I know also; I am not inferior unto you.Verse 3Notwithstanding I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.Verse 4But ye are plasterers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.Verse 5Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it would be your wisdom.Verse 6Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.Verse 7Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for Him?Verse 8Will ye show Him favour? Will ye contend for God?Verse 9Would it be good that He should search you out? Or as one mocketh a man, will ye mock Him?Verse 10He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly show favour.Verse 11Shall not His majesty terrify you, and His dread fall upon you?Verse 12Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, your eminences to eminences of clay.Verse 13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.Verse 14Wherefore? I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.Verse 15Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him; but I will argue my ways before Him.Verse 16This also shall be my salvation, that a hypocrite cannot come before Him.Verse 17Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.Verse 18Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.Verse 19Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and die.Verse 20Only do not two things unto me, then will I not hide myself from Thee:Verse 21Withdraw Thy hand far from me; and let not Thy terror make me afraid.Verse 22Then call Thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer Thou me.Verse 23How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.Verse 24Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and holdest me for Thine enemy?Verse 25Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?Verse 26That Thou shouldest write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.Verse 27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; Thou drawest Thee a line about the soles of my feet;Verse 28Though I am like a wine-skin that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten.