Job 13 — WBMS
13Verse 1Lo! mine eye, saith Job, hath seen all things, and mine ear hath heard; and I understood all things.Verse 2Even with your knowing, also I know, and I am not lower than ye.Verse 3But nevertheless I shall speak to Almighty God, and I covet to dispute with God;Verse 4and first I show you makers of lies, and lovers or favourers of wayward teachings.Verse 5And I would, that ye were still, that ye were guessed to be wise men.Verse 6Therefore hear ye my chastisings; and perceive ye the doom of my lips.Verse 7Whether God hath need to your leasing, that ye speak guileful things [or treacheries] for him?Verse 8Whether ye take his face, and enforce or endeavour to deem for God?Verse 9Either it shall please him, from whom nothing may be hid? Whether he, as a man, shall be deceived by your falsenesses?Verse 10He shall reprove you; for ye take his face in huddles.Verse 11Anon as he shall stir or move him, he shall trouble you; and his dread shall fall upon you.Verse 12Your mind shall be comparisoned to ashes; and your nolls shall be driven down into clay.Verse 13Be ye still a little, that I speak, whatever thing my mind hath showed to me.Verse 14Why rend I my flesh with my teeth, and bear my life in mine hands?Verse 15Yea, though God slay me, I shall hope in him; nevertheless I shall prove my ways in his sight.Verse 16And he shall be my saviour; for why each hypocrite shall not come in his sight.Verse 17Hear ye my word, and perceive ye with [your] ears my dark and hard privy or hard figurative speeches.Verse 18If I shall be deemed, I know that I shall be found just [or rightwise].Verse 19Who is he that is deemed with me? Come he; why am I still, and am wasted?Verse 20Do thou not to me two things only; and then I shall not be hid from thy face.Verse 21Make thine hand far from me; and thy dread make not me afeared.Verse 22Call thou me, and I shall answer thee; either certainly I shall speak, and thou shalt answer me.Verse 23How great sins and wickednesses have I? Show thou to me my felonies, and my trespasses.Verse 24Why hidest thou thy face, and deemest me thine enemy?Verse 25Thou showest thy might against a leaf, that is ravished away with the wind; and thou pursuest dry stubble.Verse 26For thou writest bitternesses against me; and wilt waste me with the sins of my young waxing age.Verse 27Thou hast set [or put] my foot in a stock, and thou hast kept all my paths; and thou hast beheld the steps of my feet.Verse 28And I shall be wasted as rot, and as a cloth, that is eaten of a moth.