Job 13

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Behold, my eye has seen all these things, and my ear has heard, and I have understood each one.	1 "Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
2 In conformity with your knowledge, I also know. I am not inferior to you.	2 What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
3 Yet I speak this way to the Almighty, and I desire to argue with God,	3 But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
4 having first shown that you fabricate lies and cultivate perverse teachings.	4 As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
5 And I wish that you would remain silent, so that you would be counted among the wise.	5 Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
6 Therefore, listen to my correction, and pay attention to the judgment of my lips.	6 Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Does God require your lie, so that you would speak deceitfully for him?	7 Will you speak falsely for God, and speak deceitfully for him?
8 Have you taken his place, and do you struggle to give judgment in favor of God?	8 Will you show partiality toward him, will you plead the case for God?
9 Or, will it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? Or, will he be deceived, like a man, by your deceitfulness?	9 Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
10 He will accuse you because in secret you have preempted his presence.	10 He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.
11 As soon as he moves himself, he will disturb you, and his dread will fall over you.	11 Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?
12 Your remembrance will be compared to ashes, and your necks will be reduced to clay.	12 Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
13 Be silent for a little while, so that I may speak whatever my mind suggests to me.	13 "Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
14 Why do I wound my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?	14 I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
15 And now, if he would kill me, I will hope in him; in this, truly, I will correct my ways in his sight.	15 Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope; yet I will defend my ways to his face.
16 And he will be my savior, for no hypocrite at all will approach in his sight.	16 This will be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.
17 Listen to my words, and perceive an enigma with your ears.	17 Listen carefully to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.
18 If I will be judged, I know that I will be found to be just.	18 Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.
19 Who is it that will go to judgment with me? Let him approach. Why should I be consumed in silence?	19 Who is there that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
20 Do not do such things to me twice, and then I will not hide from your face.	20 Only grant two things to me, then I will not hide myself from thy face:
21 Take your hand far away from me, and do not let your dread terrify me.	21 withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not dread of thee terrify me.
22 Call me, and I will answer you, or else I will speak, and you can answer me.	22 Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and do thou reply to me.
23 How many iniquities and sins do I have? Reveal my crimes and offenses to me.	23 How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
24 Why do you conceal your face and consider me to be your enemy?	24 Why dost thou hide thy face, and count me as thy enemy?
25 Against a leaf, which is carried away by the wind, you reveal your power, and you pursue dry straw.	25 Wilt thou frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
26 For you write bitter things against me, and you want to consume me for the sins of my youth.	26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
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.	27 Thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest all my paths; thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet.
28 I will be left to decay like something rotten and like a garment that is being eaten by moths.	28 Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.