# Job 13 [[Job-12|← Job 12]] | [[Job]] | [[Job-14|Job 14 →]] *** ###### v1 "Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it. ###### v2 What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you. ###### v3 "Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God. ###### v4 But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value. ###### v5 Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise. ###### v6 Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips. ###### v7 Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him? ###### v8 Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God? ###### v9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him? ###### v10 He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality. ###### v11 Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall on you? ###### v12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay. ###### v13 "Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will. ###### v14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand? ###### v15 Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him. ###### v16 This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him. ###### v17 Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears. ###### v18 See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous. ###### v19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit. ###### v20 "Only don't do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face: ###### v21 withdraw your hand far from me, and don't let your terror make me afraid. ###### v22 Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me. ###### v23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin. ###### v24 Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy? ###### v25 Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble? ###### v26 For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth: ###### v27 You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet, ###### v28 though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten. *** [[Job-12|← Job 12]] | [[Job]] | [[Job-14|Job 14 →]]