Job 13

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