Job 13

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Lo, all this my eye has seen; my ear has heard and perceived it.	1 Behold, my eye has seen all these things, and my ear has heard, and I have understood each one.
2 What you know, I also know; I fall not short of you.	2 In conformity with your knowledge, I also know. I am not inferior to you.
3 But I would speak with the Almighty; I wish to reason with God.	3 Yet I speak this way to the Almighty, and I desire to argue with God,
4 You are glossing over falsehoods and offering vain remedies, every one of you!	4 having first shown that you fabricate lies and cultivate perverse teachings.
5 Oh, that you would be altogether silent! This for you would be wisdom.	5 And I wish that you would remain silent, so that you would be counted among the wise.
6 Hear now the rebuke I shall utter and listen to the reproof from my lips.	6 Therefore, listen to my correction, and pay attention to the judgment of my lips.
7 Is it for God that you speak falsehood? Is it for him that you utter deceit?	7 Does God require your lie, so that you would speak deceitfully for him?
8 Is it for him that you show partiality? Do you play advocate on behalf of God?	8 Have you taken his place, and do you struggle to give judgment in favor of God?
9 Will it be well when he shall search you out? Would you impose on him as one does on men?	9 Or, will it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? Or, will he be deceived, like a man, by your deceitfulness?
10 He will openly rebuke you if even in secret you show partiality.	10 He will accuse you because in secret you have preempted his presence.
11 Surely will his majesty affright you and the dread of him fall upon you.	11 As soon as he moves himself, he will disturb you, and his dread will fall over you.
12 Your reminders are ashy maxims, your fabrications are mounds of clay.	12 Your remembrance will be compared to ashes, and your necks will be reduced to clay.
13 Be silent, let me alone! that I may speak and give vent to my feelings.	13 Be silent for a little while, so that I may speak whatever my mind suggests to me.
14 I will carry my flesh between my teeth, and take my life in my hand.	14 Why do I wound my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?
15 Slay me though he might, I will wait for him; I will defend my conduct before him.	15 And now, if he would kill me, I will hope in him; in this, truly, I will correct my ways in his sight.
16 And this shall be my salvation, that no impious man can come into his presence.	16 And he will be my savior, for no hypocrite at all will approach in his sight.
17 Pay careful heed to my speech, and give my statement a hearing.	17 Listen to my words, and perceive an enigma with your ears.
18 Behold, I have prepared my case, I know that I am in the right.	18 If I will be judged, I know that I will be found to be just.
19 If anyone can make a case against me, then I shall be silent and die.	19 Who is it that will go to judgment with me? Let him approach. Why should I be consumed in silence?
20 These things only do not use against me, then from your presence I need not hide:	20 Do not do such things to me twice, and then I will not hide from your face.
21 Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not the terror of you frighten me.	21 Take your hand far away from me, and do not let your dread terrify me.
22 Then call me, and I will respond; or let me speak first, and answer me.	22 Call me, and I will answer you, or else I will speak, and you can answer me.
23 What are my faults and my sins? My misdeeds and my sins make known to me!	23 How many iniquities and sins do I have? Reveal my crimes and offenses to me.
24 Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?	24 Why do you conceal your face and consider me to be your enemy?
25 Will you harass a wind-driven leaf, or pursue a withered straw?	25 Against a leaf, which is carried away by the wind, you reveal your power, and you pursue dry straw.
26 For you draw up bitter indictments against me, and punish in me the faults of my youth.	26 For you write bitter things against me, and you want to consume me for the sins of my youth.
27 You put my feet in the stocks; you watch all my paths and trace out all my footsteps.	27 You have put my feet on a tether, and you have observed all my paths, and you have considered the steps of my feet.
28 Though he wears out like a leather bottle, like a garment that the moth has consumed?	28 I will be left to decay like something rotten and like a garment that is being eaten by moths.