(KJV) Job 13¹

⥃Job Prepares His Case

[1] Lo², mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear³ hath heard and understood it. [2] What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior unto you.⁴ [3] Surely⁵ I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire⁶ to reason with God. [4] But ye [are] forgers⁷ of lies, ye [are] all physicians⁸ of no value. [5] O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it⁹ should be your wisdom.¹⁰ [6] Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.¹¹ [7] Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?¹² [8] Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?¹³ [9] Is it good that he should search¹⁴ you out? or as one¹⁵ man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him? [10] He will surely reprove¹⁶ you, if ye do secretly accept persons. [11] Shall¹⁷ not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread¹⁸ fall upon you? [12] Your remembrances¹⁹ [are] like unto ashes²⁰, your bodies to bodies²¹ of clay. [13] Hold your peace²², let me²³ alone, that I may speak, and let come²⁴ on me what [will]. [14] Wherefore do I take²⁵ my flesh in my teeth, and put²⁶ my life in mine hand? [15] Though he slay me²⁷, yet will I trust in him: but I will²⁸ maintain²⁹ mine own ways before him. [16] He also [shall be] my salvation³⁰: for an hypocrite³¹ shall not come before him. [17] Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.³² [18] Behold now, I have ordered³³ [my] cause; I know³⁴ that I shall be justified. [19] Who [is] he [that] will plead³⁵ with me? for now, if I hold³⁶ my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. [20] Only do not two³⁷ [things] unto me: then will I not hide myself³⁸ from thee. [21] Withdraw³⁹ thine hand far from me: and let not⁴⁰ thy dread make me afraid. [22] Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.⁴¹ [23] How many⁴² [are] mine iniquities and sins? make me⁴³ to know my transgression and my sin. [24] Wherefore hidest thou⁴⁴ thy face, and holdest me⁴⁵ for thine enemy? [25] Wilt thou break⁴⁶ a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? [26] For thou writest⁴⁷ bitter things against me, and makest⁴⁸ me to possess the iniquities of my youth. [27] Thou puttest⁴⁹ my feet also in the stocks, and lookest⁵⁰ narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest⁵¹ a print upon the heels⁵² of my feet. [28] And he⁵³, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment⁵⁴ that is moth eaten.