Job 13

1 “Behold, my eye has seen all this. ‡ Job 5:9-161Jn 1:3Job 12:9-25Job 15:17-18Job 4:12Job 42:3-6Job 5:27Job 8:8-10 +1

My ear has heard and understood it.

2 What you know, I know also. ‡ Job 12:32Co 11:16-182Co 12:11Job 42:71Co 8:1-22Co 11:4-5Job 34:35Job 35:16 +3

I am not inferior to you.

3 “Surely I would speak to the Almighty. ‡ Isa 41:21Isa 1:18-20Job 13:22Job 31:35Job 9:3Jer 12:1-2Job 11:5Job 13:15 +4

I desire to reason with God.

4 But you are forgers of lies. ‡ Psa 119:69Jer 23:32Jer 6:14Jer 8:22Job 16:2Mrk 5:26Ezk 34:4Hos 5:13 +11

You are all physicians of no value.

5 Oh that you would be completely silent! ‡ Pro 17:28Jas 1:19Ecc 5:3Job 13:13Amo 5:13Job 11:3Job 16:3Job 18:2 +3

Then you would be wise.

6 Hear now my reasoning. ‡ Job 34:2Jdg 9:7Job 21:2-3Job 33:1-3Pro 8:6-7

Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

7 Will you speak unrighteously for God, ‡ Job 36:4Job 27:42Co 4:2Jhn 16:2Job 11:2-4Job 17:5Job 32:21-22Job 4:7 +1

and talk deceitfully for him?

8 Will you show partiality to him? ‡ Exo 23:2-3Pro 24:23Job 32:21Job 34:19Lev 19:15Mal 2:9

Will you contend for God?

9 Is it good that he should search you out? ‡ Gal 6:7-8Jer 17:10Psa 44:21Isa 28:22Job 12:16Job 17:2Job 34:36Psa 139:23

Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

10 He will surely reprove you ‡ Jas 2:9Psa 50:21-22Psa 82:2Job 42:7-8

if you secretly show partiality.

11 Won’t his majesty make you afraid ‡ Job 31:23Psa 119:120Exo 15:16Isa 8:13Jer 10:10Jer 5:22Job 13:21Mat 10:28 +1

and his dread fall on you?

12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. ‡ 2Co 5:1Exo 17:14Gen 18:27Gen 2:7Isa 26:14Job 18:17Job 4:19Pro 10:7 +3

Your defenses are defenses of clay.

13 “Be silent! ‡ Job 7:11Job 10:1Job 13:5Job 21:3Job 6:9-10Job 7:15-16

Leave me alone, that I may speak.

Let come on me what will.

14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, ‡ Jdg 12:3Psa 119:1091Sa 19:51Sa 28:21Ecc 4:5Job 18:4Isa 49:26Isa 9:20

and put my life in my hand?

15 Behold, he will kill me. ‡ Psa 23:4Job 19:25-28Job 23:10Rom 8:38-391Jn 3:20Job 27:5Job 23:4-7Pro 14:32 +9

I have no hope.

Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

16 This also will be my salvation, ‡ Isa 12:1-2Isa 33:14Psa 118:21Act 13:47Exo 15:2Jer 3:23Job 27:8-10Job 36:13 +4

that a godless man will not come before him.

17 Listen carefully to my speech. ‡ Job 13:6Job 21:2Job 33:1

Let my declaration be in your ears.

18 See now, I have set my cause in order. ‡ Job 23:4Job 9:2-32Co 1:12Isa 43:26Job 16:21Job 40:7-8Job 9:20Rom 8:33-34

I know that I am righteous.

19 Who is he who will contend with me? ‡ Isa 50:7-8Jer 20:9Job 10:8Job 13:13Job 19:5Job 33:32Job 33:5-7Job 7:11 +1

For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit.

20 “Only don’t do two things to me, ‡ Gen 3:8-10Job 9:34-35Psa 139:12Rev 6:15-16

then I will not hide myself from your face:

21 withdraw your hand far from me, ‡ Job 33:7Job 9:34Psa 39:10Job 10:20Job 13:11Job 22:15-17Psa 119:120

and don’t let your terror make me afraid.

22 Then call, and I will answer, ‡ Job 14:15Job 38:3Job 40:4-5Job 42:3-6Job 9:16Job 9:32

or let me speak, and you answer me.

23 How many are my iniquities and sins? ‡ Job 36:8-9Psa 139:23Psa 44:20-21Job 22:5

Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

24 Why do you hide your face, ‡ Job 19:11Lam 2:5Psa 13:1Deu 32:20Isa 8:17Job 33:10Psa 44:24Psa 88:14 +9

and consider me your enemy?

25 Will you harass a driven leaf? ‡ Job 21:18Lev 26:361Sa 24:14Isa 17:13Job 14:3Mat 12:20

Will you pursue the dry stubble?

26 For you write bitter things against me, ‡ Psa 25:7Jhn 5:14Jer 31:19Jhn 5:5Job 20:11Job 3:20Pro 5:11-13Psa 88:3-18 +1

and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

27 You also put my feet in the stocks, ‡ Job 33:112Ch 16:10-12Act 16:24Job 10:6Job 14:16Job 16:9Job 2:7Pro 7:22

and mark all my paths.

You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

28 though I am decaying like a rotten thing, ‡ Psa 39:11Job 4:19Hos 5:12Job 30:17-19Job 30:29-30Num 12:12

like a garment that is moth-eaten.