2. Job Begs God to Speak to Him. .. 13:1-28
Job 13:1
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.Job 13:2
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.Job 13:3
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.Job 13:4
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.Job 13:5
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.Job 13:6
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.Job 13:7
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?Job 13:8
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?Job 13:9
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?Job 13:10
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.Job 13:11
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?Job 13:12
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.Job 13:13
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.Job 13:14
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?Job 13:15
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.Job 13:16
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.Job 13:17
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.Job 13:18
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.Job 13:19
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.Job 13:20
Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.Job 13:21
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.Job 13:22
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.Job 13:23
How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.Job 13:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?Job 13:25
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?Job 13:26
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.Job 13:27
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.Job 13:28
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.