Job 13

¹Lo, all — hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.

²According to your knowledge I have known — also I. I am not fallen more than you.

³Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.

⁴And yet, ye [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought — all of you,

⁵O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.

⁶Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,

⁷For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?

⁸His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?

⁹Is [it] good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?

¹⁰He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.

¹¹Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?

¹²Your remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.

¹³Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?

¹⁴Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?

¹⁵Lo, He doth slay me — I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.

¹⁶Also — He [is] to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.

¹⁷Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears.