13:1 Lo, my eye hath seen all [this], my ear hath heard and
understood it.
13:2 What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not
inferior to 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 would 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 excellence make you afraid? and his dread
fall upon you?
13:12 Your remembrances [are] like to 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 Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my
hand?
13:15 Though he shall slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I
will maintain my own ways before him.
13:16 He also [shall be] my salvation: for a 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 expire.
13:20 Only do not two [things] to me: then will I not hide
myself from thee.
13:21 Withdraw thy 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] my iniquities and sins? make me to know my
transgression and my sin.
13:24 Why hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thy 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 to 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.
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