13Job 13

CHAP. XIII. / 1 Iob reprooueth his friends of partialitie. 14 He professeth his confidence in God: 20 and entreateth to knowe his owne sinnes, and Gods purpose in afflicting him.

1Loe, mine eye hath seene all this, mine eare hath heard and vnderstood it.Select Job 13:1

2What yee know, the same doe I know also, I am not inferiour vnto you.Select Job 13:2

3Surely I would speake to the Almighty, & I desire to reason with God.Select Job 13:3

4But ye are forgers of lies, yee are all Physicians of no value.Select Job 13:4

5O that you would altogether hold your peace, & it should be your wisdome.Select Job 13:5

6Heare now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.Select Job 13:6

7Wil you speake wickedly for God? and talke deceitfully for him?Select Job 13:7

8Will ye accept his person? Will yee contend for God?Select Job 13:8

9Is it good that hee should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, doe ye so mocke him?Select Job 13:9

10He will surely reprooue you, if yee doe secretly accept persons.Select Job 13:10

11Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his dread fall vpon you?Select Job 13:11

12Your remembrances are like vnto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.Select Job 13:12

13Hold your peace, let me alone that I may speake, and let come on me what will.Select Job 13:13

14Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?Select Job 13:14

15Though hee slay mee, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintaine mine owne wayes before him.Select Job 13:15

16Hee also shall be my saluation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.Select Job 13:16

17Heare diligently my speach, and my declaration with your eares.Select Job 13:17

18Behold now, I haue ordered my cause, I know that I shall be iustified.Select Job 13:18

19Who is hee that will plead with me? for now if I hold my tongue, I shall giue vp the ghost.Select Job 13:19

20Only doe not two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.Select Job 13:20

21Withdrawe thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make mee afraid.Select Job 13:21

22Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou mee.Select Job 13:22

23How many are mine iniquities and sinnes? make mee to knowe my transgression, and my sinne.Select Job 13:23

24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemie?Select Job 13:24

25Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?Select Job 13:25

26For thou writest bitter things against mee, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth.Select Job 13:26

27Thou puttest my feete also in the stockes, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes; thou settest a print vpon the heeles of my feete.Select Job 13:27

28And hee, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten.Select Job 13:28