Job 13

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Behold, my eye has seen all these things, and my ear has heard, and I have understood each one.	1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2 In conformity with your knowledge, I also know. I am not inferior to you.	2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
3 Yet I speak this way to the Almighty, and I desire to argue with God,	3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4 having first shown that you fabricate lies and cultivate perverse teachings.	4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5 And I wish that you would remain silent, so that you would be counted among the wise.	5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
6 Therefore, listen to my correction, and pay attention to the judgment of my lips.	6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Does God require your lie, so that you would speak deceitfully for him?	7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
8 Have you taken his place, and do you struggle to give judgment in favor of God?	8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend 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 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
10 He will accuse you because in secret you have preempted his presence.	10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11 As soon as he moves himself, he will disturb you, and his dread will fall over you.	11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12 Your remembrance will be compared to ashes, and your necks will be reduced to clay.	12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13 Be silent for a little while, so that I may speak whatever my mind suggests to me.	13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
14 Why do I wound my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?	14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine 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 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
16 And he will be my savior, for no hypocrite at all will approach in his sight.	16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
17 Listen to my words, and perceive an enigma with your ears.	17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
18 If I will be judged, I know that I will be found to be just.	18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19 Who is it that will go to judgment with me? Let him approach. Why should I be consumed in silence?	19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
20 Do not do such things to me twice, and then I will not hide from your face.	20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
21 Take your hand far away from me, and do not let your dread terrify me.	21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
22 Call me, and I will answer you, or else I will speak, and you can answer me.	22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
23 How many iniquities and sins do I have? Reveal my crimes and offenses to me.	23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24 Why do you conceal your face and consider me to be your enemy?	24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
25 Against a leaf, which is carried away by the wind, you reveal your power, and you pursue dry straw.	25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
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 to possess 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 also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
28 I will be left to decay like something rotten and like a garment that is being eaten by moths.	28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.