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Job 13 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Job 13:1"Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
Job 13:2What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
Job 13:3But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
Job 13:4As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
Job 13:5Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
Job 13:6Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
Job 13:7Will you speak falsely for God, and speak deceitfully for him?
Job 13:8Will you show partiality toward him, will you plead the case for God?
Job 13:9Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
Job 13:10He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.
Job 13:11Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?
Job 13:12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.

Job Is Sure He Will Be Vindicated

Job 13:13"Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
Job 13:14I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
Job 13:15Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope; yet I will defend my ways to his face.
Job 13:16This will be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.
Job 13:17Listen carefully to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.
Job 13:18Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.
Job 13:19Who is there that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
Job 13:20Only grant two things to me, then I will not hide myself from thy face:
Job 13:21withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not dread of thee terrify me.
Job 13:22Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and do thou reply to me.
Job 13:23How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
Job 13:24Why dost thou hide thy face, and count me as thy enemy?
Job 13:25Wilt thou frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
Job 13:26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
Job 13:27Thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest all my paths; thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet.
Job 13:28Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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