Bible-Reading.comJob 13
1Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2What ye know, I know also: I am not inferior to you.
3But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with God;
4For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom.
6Hear now my defence, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7Will ye speak unrighteously for God? and for him speak deceit?
8Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
9Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?
10He will certainly reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11Shall not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?
12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
13Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what will!
14Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
15Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him.
16This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face.
17Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears.
18Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.
20Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee.
21Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid:
22Then call, and I will answer; or I will speak, and answer thou me.
23How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?
25Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth;
27And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; --
28One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.
Job 14
1Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.
3Yet dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
4Who can bring a clean man out of the unclean? Not one!
5If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not pass,
6Look away from him; and let him rest, till he accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
7For there is hope for a tree: if it be cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender branch will not cease;
8Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stock die in the ground,
9Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a young plant.
10But a man dieth, and is prostrate; yea, man expireth, and where is he?
11The waters recede from the lake, and the river wasteth and drieth up:
12So man lieth down, and riseth not again; till the heavens be no more, they do not awake, nor are raised out of their sleep.
13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me, --
14(If a man die, shall he live again?) all the days of my time of toil would I wait, till my change should come:
15Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest have a desire after the work of thy hands.
16For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou heapest up mine iniquity.
18And indeed a mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of its place;
19The waters wear the stones, the floods thereof wash away the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
20Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth away; thou changest his countenance, and dismissest him.
21His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not.
22But his flesh hath pain for himself alone, and his soul mourneth for himself.