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