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