Job Says His Friends’ Proverbs Are Ashes

13 (A)Behold, my eye has seen all this,
My ear has heard and understood it.
(B)What you know I also know;
I am not inferior to you.

“But (C)I would speak to [a]the Almighty,
And I desire to (D)argue with God.
But you (E)smear me with lies;
You are all (F)worthless physicians.
Oh that you would (G)be completely silent,
And that it would become your wisdom!

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Footnotes

  1. Job 13:3 Heb Shaddai

13 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this,
Mine ear hath heard and understood it.
What ye know, the same do I know also:
I am not inferior unto you.

Surely I would speak to the Almighty,
And I desire to reason with God.
But ye are forgers of lies;
Ye are all physicians of no value.
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace!
And it would be your wisdom.

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