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| Job 13:1 | Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it. | Truly, my eye has seen all this, word of it has come to my ear, and I have knowledge of it. |
| Job 13:2 | What ye know, I know also: I am not inferior to you. | The same things are in my mind as in yours; I am equal to you. |
| Job 13:3 | But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with ùGod; | But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God. |
| Job 13:4 | For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. | But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value. |
| Job 13:5 | Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom. | If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom! |
| Job 13:6 | Hear now my defence, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. | Give ear to the argument of my mouth, and take note of the words of my lips. |
| Job 13:7 | Will ye speak unrighteously for ùGod? and for him speak deceit? | Will you say in God's name what is not right, and put false words into his mouth? |
| Job 13:8 | Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for ùGod? | Will you have respect for God's person in this cause, and put yourselves forward as his supporters? |
| Job 13:9 | Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him? | Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man? |
| Job 13:10 | He will certainly reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. | He will certainly put you right, if you have respect for persons in secret. |
| Job 13:11 | Shall not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you? | Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him? |
| Job 13:12 | Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire. | Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth. |
| Job 13:13 | Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what [will]! | Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me. |
| Job 13:14 | Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand? | I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand. |
| Job 13:15 | Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him. | Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him; |
| Job 13:16 | This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face. | And that will be my salvation, for an evil-doer would not come before him, |
| Job 13:17 | Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears. | Give ear with care to my words, and keep what I say in your minds. |
| Job 13:18 | Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified. | See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right. |
| Job 13:19 | Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire. | Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath. |
| Job 13:20 | Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee. | Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face: |
| Job 13:21 | Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid: | Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you. |
| Job 13:22 | Then call, and I will answer; or I will speak, and answer thou me. | Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer. |
| Job 13:23 | How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin. | What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them. |
| Job 13:24 | Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy? | Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters? |
| Job 13:25 | Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble? | Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way? |
| Job 13:26 | For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth; | For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years; |
| Job 13:27 | And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; | And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps; |
| Job 13:28 | One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth. | Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm. |
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