Job 13

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¹ I have seen all this with my own eyes, heard with my own ears and understood.	¹ Lo, all this my eye has seen; my ear has heard and perceived it.
² Whatever you know, I know too; I am in no way inferior to you.	² What you know, I also know; I fall not short of you.
³ But my words are intended for Shaddai; I mean to remonstrate with God.	³ But I would speak with the Almighty; I wish to reason with God.
⁴ As for you, you are only charlatans, all worthless as doctors!	⁴ You are glossing over falsehoods and offering vain remedies, every one of you!
⁵ Wil no one teach you to be quiet -- the only wisdom that becomes you!	⁵ Oh, that you would be altogether silent! This for you would be wisdom.
⁶ Kindly listen to my accusation and give your attention to the way I shall plead.	⁶ Hear now the rebuke I shall utter and listen to the reproof from my lips.
⁷ Do you mean to defend God by prevarication and by dishonest argument,	⁷ Is it for God that you speak falsehood? Is it for him that you utter deceit?
⁸ and, taking his side like this, appoint yourselves as his advocates?	⁸ Is it for him that you show partiality? Do you play advocate on behalf of God?
⁹ How would you fare, if he were to scrutinise you? Can he be duped as mortals are duped?	⁹ Will it be well when he shall search you out? Would you impose on him as one does on men?
¹⁰ He would inflict a harsh rebuke on you for your covert partiality.	¹⁰ He will openly rebuke you if even in secret you show partiality.
¹¹ Does his majesty not affright you? Does his terror not overcome you?	¹¹ Surely will his majesty affright you and the dread of him fall upon you.
¹² Your received ideas are maxims of ash, your retorts, retorts of clay.	¹² Your reminders are ashy maxims, your fabrications are mounds of clay.
¹³ Be quiet! Kindly let me do the talking, happen to me what may.	¹³ Be silent, let me alone! that I may speak and give vent to my feelings.
¹⁴ I am putting my flesh between my teeth, I am taking my life in my hands;	¹⁴ I will carry my flesh between my teeth, and take my life in my hand.
¹⁵ let him kill me if he will; I have no other hope than to justify my conduct in his eyes.	¹⁵ Slay me though he might, I will wait for him; I will defend my conduct before him.
¹⁶ And this is what wil save me, for the wicked would not dare to appear before him.	¹⁶ And this shall be my salvation, that no impious man can come into his presence.
¹⁷ Listen careful y to my words, and pay attention to what I am going to say.	¹⁷ Pay careful heed to my speech, and give my statement a hearing.
¹⁸ You see, I shal proceed by form of law, knowing that I am upright.	¹⁸ Behold, I have prepared my case, I know that I am in the right.
¹⁹ Who wants to contest my case? In advance, I agree to be silenced and to die!	¹⁹ If anyone can make a case against me, then I shall be silent and die.
²⁰ Only grant me two concessions, and then I shal not hide away from your face:	²⁰ These things only do not use against me, then from your presence I need not hide:
²¹ remove your hand, which lies so heavy on me, no longer make me cower from your terror.	²¹ Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not the terror of you frighten me.
²² Then cal me forward and I shal answer, or rather, I shall speak and you wil answer.	²² Then call me, and I will respond; or let me speak first, and answer me.
²³ How many faults and crimes have I committed? Tell me what my misdeed has been, what my sin?	²³ What are my faults and my sins? My misdeeds and my sins make known to me!
²⁴ Why do you hide your face and look on me as your enemy?	²⁴ Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?
²⁵ Do you want to intimidate a wind-blown leaf, do you want to pursue a dry straw?	²⁵ Will you harass a wind-driven leaf, or pursue a withered straw?
²⁶ You who lay bitter al egations against me and tax me with the faults of my youth	²⁶ For you draw up bitter indictments against me, and punish in me the faults of my youth.
²⁷ and have put my feet in the stocks; you examine my every step and measure my footprints one byone!	²⁷ You put my feet in the stocks; you watch all my paths and trace out all my footsteps.
²⁸ For his part, he crumbles away like rotten wood, or like a moth-eaten garment,	²⁸ Though he wears out like a leather bottle, like a garment that the moth has consumed?

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