Job

Job 13 ©

1 Job reproveth his friends of false reasoning and partiality: 14 though unable to account for his own afflictions, he professeth his confidence in God: 20 he entreateth to know his sins, and the cause of his affliction.

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LO, amine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

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bWhat ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

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Surely I cwould speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

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But ye are dforgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

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O ethat ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

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fHear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

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gWill ye speak wickedly for God? and talk hdeceitfully for him?

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Will ye iaccept his person? will ye contend for God?

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jIs it good that he should ksearch you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so lmock him?

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He will surely mreprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

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Shall not his 1excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

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nYour remembrances are like unto oashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

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2Hold your peace, plet me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

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Wherefore qdo I take my flesh in my teeth, and rput my life in mine hand?

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sThough he slay me, yet will I ttrust in him: but I will 3maintain mine own ways before him.

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He also shall be umy salvation: for van hypocrite shall not come before him.

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wHear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

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Behold now, I have xordered my cause; yI know that I shall be justified.

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zWho is he that will plead with me? afor now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

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bOnly do not two things unto me: then will I not chide myself from thee.

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dWithdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

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Then ecall thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

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fHow many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

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Wherefore ghidest thou thy face, and hholdest me for thine enemy?

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Wilt ithou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

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For jthou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

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Thou kputtest my feet also in the stocks, and l4lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the 5heels of my feet.

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mAnd he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.