The Book of Job 13

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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 ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain