Job 13

¹Behold my eye hath seen all these things, and my ear hath heard them, and I have understood them all.

²According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you.

³But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

⁴Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.

⁵And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.

⁶Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my lips.

⁷Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?

⁸Do you accept his person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?

⁹Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings?

¹⁰He shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person.

¹¹As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you.

¹²Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.

¹³Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.

¹⁴Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?

¹⁵Although he should bill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.