Job 13 — KJV

13 Verse 1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. ^{Verse 2} What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. ^{Verse 3} Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. ^{Verse 4} But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. ^{Verse 5} O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. ^{Verse 6} Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. ^{Verse 7} Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? ^{Verse 8} Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? ^{Verse 9} Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? ^{Verse 10} He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. ^{Verse 11} Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? ^{Verse 12} Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. ^{Verse 13} Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. ^{Verse 14} Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? ^{Verse 15} Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. ^{Verse 16} He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. ^{Verse 17} Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. ^{Verse 18} Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. ^{Verse 19} Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. ^{Verse 20} Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. ^{Verse 21} Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. ^{Verse 22} Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. ^{Verse 23} How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. ^{Verse 24} Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? ^{Verse 25} Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? ^{Verse 26} For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. ^{Verse 27} Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. ^{Verse 28} And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.