Job 13:1-28
Job Prepares His Case

1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it.

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2 What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior unto you.

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3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

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4 But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value.

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5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

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6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

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7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

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

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9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him?

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

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

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12 Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

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13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will].

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14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

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15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

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16 He also [shall be] my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

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17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

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18 Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified.

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19 Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

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20 Only do not two [things] unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

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21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

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

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23 How many [are] mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

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24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

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

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26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

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27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

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28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

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