Job 13 - Meaning, Themes & Application

" Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood "

" What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior "

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

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

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

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

" Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully "

" Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? "

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

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

" Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall "

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

" Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come "

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

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

" He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before "

" Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. "

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

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

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

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

" Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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