{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/jps/job13.htm","path":"bib/jps/job13.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/jps/job13.htm","text":"1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.\n2 What ye know, do I know also; I am not inferior unto you.\n3 Notwithstanding I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with G-d.\n4 But ye are plasterers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.\n5 Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it would be your wisdom.\n6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.\n7 Will ye speak unrighteously for G-d, and talk deceitfully for Him?\n8 Will ye show Him favour? Will ye contend for G-d?\n9 Would it be good that He should search you out? Or as one mocketh a man, will ye mock Him?\n10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly show favour.\n11 Shall not His majesty terrify you, and His dread fall upon you?\n12 Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, your eminences to eminences of clay.\n13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.\n14 Wherefore? I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.\n15 Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him; but I will argue my ways before Him.\n16 This also shall be my salvation, that a hypocrite cannot come before Him.\n17 Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.\n18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.\n19 Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and die.\n20 Only do not two things unto me, then will I not hide myself from Thee:\n21 Withdraw Thy hand far from me; and let not Thy terror make me afraid.\n22 Then call Thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer Thou me.\n23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.\n24 Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and holdest me for Thine enemy?\n25 Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?\n26 That Thou shouldest write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.\n27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; Thou drawest Thee a line about the soles of my feet;\n28 Though I am like a wine-skin that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten.","title":"Job 13","type":"page"}