Holy Bible – JOB 13 : 1 – 28

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Job:13:1: Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

Job:13:2: What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

Job:13:3: Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

Job:13:4: But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

Job:13:5: O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

Job:13:6: Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

Job:13:7: Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

Job:13:8: Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

Job:13:9: Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

Job:13:10: He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

Job:13:11: Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

Job:13:12: Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

Job:13:13: Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

Job:13:14: Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

Job:13:15: Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

Job:13:16: He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

Job:13:17: Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

Job:13:18: Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

Job:13:19: Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

Job:13:20: Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

Job:13:21: Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

Job:13:22: Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

Job:13:23: How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

Job:13:24: Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

Job:13:25: Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

Job:13:26: For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

Job: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.

Job:13:28: And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

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