Job 13  Jubilee Bible 2000

13 ¶ Behold, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood it.

² As you know it, I know it; I am not inferior unto you.

³ But I would speak with the Almighty, and I desired to dispute with God.

⁴ That ye are certainly forgers of lies; ye are all physicians of no value.

⁵ O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be unto you instead of wisdom.

⁶ Hear now my dispute, and hearken to the arguments of my lips.

⁷ Are ye to speak iniquity for God? Are ye to speak deceitfully for him?

⁸ Are ye to bring honour unto him? Are ye to contend for God?

⁹ Would it be good for him to search you out? As one man mocks another, do ye so mock him?

¹⁰ He will reprove you severely, if in secret you give him such honour.

¹¹ Certainly his excellency should make you afraid, and his dread should fall upon you.

¹² Your memories shall be compared unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

¹³ ¶ Listen to me, and I will speak, and afterward let come on me what will.

¹⁴ Why shall I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in the palm of my hand?

¹⁵ Though he slay me, yet I will trust in him; but I will defend my ways before him.

¹⁶ He also shall be my saving health; for the hypocrite shall not enter into his presence.

¹⁷ Hear diligently my reason and my declaration with your ears.

¹⁸ Behold now, if I draw near unto the judgment; I know that I shall be justified.

¹⁹ Who is he that will contend with me? For now, if I remain silent, I shall die.

²⁰ At the least, grant me these two things; then I will not hide myself from thee:

²¹ withdraw thy hand from me; and let not thy dread make me afraid.

²² Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer thou me.

²³ ¶ How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.

²⁴ Why dost thou hide thy face, and hold me for thine enemy?

²⁵ Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? Wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

²⁶ Why dost thou write bitter things against me and make me carry the iniquities of my youth.

²⁷ Thou dost put my feet also in the stocks and look narrowly unto all my paths; thou dost set a print upon the heels of my feet.

²⁸ And man, is as a rotten thing that is being consumed, as a garment that is moth eaten.