Job 13

Revised Geneva Translation

13 “Lo, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.

² “I, also, know as much as you know. I am not inferior to you.

³ “But I will speak to the Almighty. And I desire to convince God.

⁴ “For indeed you forge lies. And all of you are physicians of no value.

⁵ “Oh, that you would hold your tongue, and it would become your wisdom.

⁶ “Now hear my correction and give ear to the arguments of my lips.

⁷ “Will you speak wickedly of God and talk deceitfully of His cause?

⁸ “Are you lifting up His Person if you strive with God?

⁹ “Is it well that He should seek you if you lie for Him, as one lies for a man?

¹⁰ “He will surely reprove you if you secretly lift up any person.

¹¹ “Shall not His excellency make you afraid and His fear fall upon you?

¹² “Your memories may be compared to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

¹³ “Hold your tongues in my presence, so that I may speak and let come upon me what will.

¹⁴ “Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my soul in my hand?

¹⁵ “Lo, though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him. And I will prove my ways in His sight.

¹⁶ “He shall also be my salvation. For the hypocrite shall not come before Him.

¹⁷ “Hear diligently my words, and mark my talk.

¹⁸ “Behold now, I prepare myself for judgment. I know that I shall be justified.

¹⁹ “Who is he who will contend with me? For if I hold my tongue now, I die.

²⁰ “Only, do not do these two things to me. Then will I not hide myself from You.

²¹ “Withdraw Your Hand from me and do not let Your fear make me afraid.

²² “Then call, and I will answer. Or let me speak, and answer me.

²³ “How many are my iniquities and sins? Show me my rebellion and my sin.

²⁴ “Why do You hide Your Face and take me for Your enemy?

²⁵ “Will You break a leaf, driven to and fro? And will You pursue the dry stubble?

²⁶ “For You write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

²⁷ “You also put my feet in the stocks, look narrowly to all my paths, and imprint them with the heels of my feet.

²⁸ “Such a one consumes like a rotten thing, as a garment that is moth-eaten.”