Job 13

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.	1 Lo, all this my eye has seen; my ear has heard and perceived it.
2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.	2 What you know, I also know; I fall not short of you.
3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.	3 But I would speak with the Almighty; I wish to reason with God.
4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.	4 You are glossing over falsehoods and offering vain remedies, every one of you!
5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.	5 Oh, that you would be altogether silent! This for you would be wisdom.
6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.	6 Hear now the rebuke I shall utter and listen to the reproof from my lips.
7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?	7 Is it for God that you speak falsehood? Is it for him that you utter deceit?
8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?	8 Is it for him that you show partiality? Do you play advocate on behalf of God?
9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?	9 Will it be well when he shall search you out? Would you impose on him as one does on men?
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.	10 He will openly rebuke you if even in secret you show partiality.
11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?	11 Surely will his majesty affright you and the dread of him fall upon you.
12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.	12 Your reminders are ashy maxims, your fabrications are mounds of clay.
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.	13 Be silent, let me alone! that I may speak and give vent to my feelings.
14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?	14 I will carry my flesh between my teeth, and take my life in my hand.
15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.	15 Slay me though he might, I will wait for him; I will defend my conduct before him.
16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.	16 And this shall be my salvation, that no impious man can come into his presence.
17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.	17 Pay careful heed to my speech, and give my statement a hearing.
18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.	18 Behold, I have prepared my case, I know that I am in the right.
19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.	19 If anyone can make a case against me, then I shall be silent and die.
20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.	20 These things only do not use against me, then from your presence I need not hide:
21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.	21 Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not the terror of you frighten me.
22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.	22 Then call me, and I will respond; or let me speak first, and answer me.
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.	23 What are my faults and my sins? My misdeeds and my sins make known to me!
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?	24 Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?
25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?	25 Will you harass a wind-driven leaf, or pursue a withered straw?
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.	26 For you draw up bitter indictments against me, and punish in me the faults 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.	27 You put my feet in the stocks; you watch all my paths and trace out all my footsteps.
28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.	28 Though he wears out like a leather bottle, like a garment that the moth has consumed?