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