Job 13

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.	1 I have seen all this with my own eyes, heard with my own ears and understood.
2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.	2 Whatever you know, I know too; I am in no way inferior to you.
3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.	3 But my words are intended for Shaddai; I mean to remonstrate with God.
4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.	4 As for you, you are only charlatans, all worthless as doctors!
5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.	5 Wil no one teach you to be quiet -- the only wisdom that becomes you!
6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.	6 Kindly listen to my accusation and give your attention to the way I shall plead.
7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?	7 Do you mean to defend God by prevarication and by dishonest argument,
8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?	8 and, taking his side like this, appoint yourselves as his advocates?
9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?	9 How would you fare, if he were to scrutinise you? Can he be duped as mortals are duped?
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.	10 He would inflict a harsh rebuke on you for your covert partiality.
11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?	11 Does his majesty not affright you? Does his terror not overcome you?
12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.	12 Your received ideas are maxims of ash, your retorts, retorts of clay.
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.	13 Be quiet! Kindly let me do the talking, happen to me what may.
14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?	14 I am putting my flesh between my teeth, I am taking my life in my hands;
15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.	15 let him kill me if he will; I have no other hope than to justify my conduct in his eyes.
16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.	16 And this is what wil save me, for the wicked would not dare to appear before him.
17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.	17 Listen careful y to my words, and pay attention to what I am going to say.
18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.	18 You see, I shal proceed by form of law, knowing that I am upright.
19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.	19 Who wants to contest my case? In advance, I agree to be silenced and to die!
20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.	20 Only grant me two concessions, and then I shal not hide away from your face:
21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.	21 remove your hand, which lies so heavy on me, no longer make me cower from your terror.
22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.	22 Then cal me forward and I shal answer, or rather, I shall speak and you wil answer.
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.	23 How many faults and crimes have I committed? Tell me what my misdeed has been, what my sin?
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?	24 Why do you hide your face and look on me as your enemy?
25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?	25 Do you want to intimidate a wind-blown leaf, do you want to pursue a dry straw?
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.	26 You who lay bitter al egations against me and tax me with 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 and have put my feet in the stocks; you examine my every step and measure my footprints one byone!
28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.	28 For his part, he crumbles away like rotten wood, or like a moth-eaten garment,