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title: Job 13
slug: kjv/job-13
createdAt: 2024-08-21T01:14:01.890Z
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**1 **Lo, mine eye hath seen all *this*, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

**2 **What ye know, *the same* do I know also: I *am* not inferior unto you.

**3 **Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

**4 **But ye *are* forgers of lies, ye *are* all physicians of no value.

**5 **O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

**6 **Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

**7 **Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

**8 **Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

**9 **Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye *so* mock him?

**10 **He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

**11 **Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

**12 **Your remembrances *are* like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

**13 **Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what *will*.

**14 **Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

**15 **Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

**16 **He also *shall be* my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

**17 **Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

**18 **Behold now, I have ordered *my* cause; I know that I shall be justified.

**19 **Who *is* he *that* will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

**20 **Only do not two *things* unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

**21 **Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

**22 **Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

**23 **How many *are* mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

**24 **Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

**25 **Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

**26 **For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

**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 **And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.