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