Now hear my disputation, and give ear to the arguments of my lips.

Will ye speak [a]wickedly for God’s defense, and talk deceitfully for his cause?

Will ye accept his person? or will ye contend for God?

Is it well that he should seek of you? will you make a lie for him, as one lieth for a man?

10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept any person.

11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his fear fall upon you?

12 Your [b]memories may be compared unto ashes, and your bodies unto bodies of clay.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 13:7 He condemneth their zeal, which had not knowledge, neither regarded they to comfort him, but always grated on God’s justice, as though it was not evidently seen in Job, except they had undertaken the probation thereof.
  2. Job 13:12 Your fame shall come to nothing.

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