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Job 13 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Job 13:1Lo, all -- hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.
Job 13:2According to your knowledge I have known -- also I. I am not fallen more than you.
Job 13:3Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.
Job 13:4And yet, ye are forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you,
Job 13:5O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
Job 13:6Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,
Job 13:7For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?
Job 13:8His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?
Job 13:9Is it good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?
Job 13:10He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.
Job 13:11Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?
Job 13:12Your remembrances are similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.

Job Is Sure He Will Be Vindicated

Job 13:13Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?
Job 13:14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?
Job 13:15Lo, He doth slay me -- I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.
Job 13:16Also -- He is to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.
Job 13:17Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears.
Job 13:18Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.
Job 13:19Who is he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
Job 13:20Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden.
Job 13:21Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.
Job 13:22And call Thou, and I -- I answer, Or -- I speak, and answer Thou me.
Job 13:23How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.
Job 13:24Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?
Job 13:25A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?
Job 13:26For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:
Job 13:27And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,
Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
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