Job 13

¹Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it.

²I knowe also as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto you.

³But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.

⁴For in deede ye forge lyes, and all you are physitions of no value.

⁵Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!

⁶Nowe heare my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments of my lips.

⁷Will ye speake wickedly for Gods defence, and talke deceitfully for his cause?

⁸Will ye accept his person? or will ye contende for God?

⁹Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?

¹⁰He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly accept any person.

¹¹Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?

¹²Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.

¹³Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.

¹⁴Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soule in mine hande?

¹⁵Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.

¹⁶He shalbe my saluation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him.

Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke.