# Job 13 [[Job 12|←]] • [[Job 14|→]] --- ### 1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all mine ear hath heard and understood it. ### 2 What ye know, do I know also: I not inferior unto you. ### 3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. ### 4 But ye forgers of lies, ye all physicians of no value. ### 5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. ### 6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. ### 7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? ### 8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? ### 9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye mock him? ### 10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. ### 11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? ### 12 Your remembrances like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. ### 13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what ### 14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? ### 15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. ### 16 He also my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. ### 17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. ### 18 Behold now, I have ordered cause; I know that I shall be justified. ### 19 Who he will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. ### 20 Only do not two unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. ### 21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. ### 22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. ### 23 How many mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. ### 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? ### 25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? ### 26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. ### 27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. ### 28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.