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Job 13 (AMP)

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¹ Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it. ² What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. ³ Surely I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue and reason my case with God . ⁴ But you are forgers of lies ; you are all physicians of no value and have no remedy to offer. ⁵ Oh, that you would altogether hold your peace! Then you would evidence your wisdom and you might pass for wise men. ⁶ Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips. ⁷ Will you speak unrighteously for God and talk deceitfully for Him? ⁸ Will you show partiality to Him ? Will you act as special pleaders for God? ⁹ Would it be profitable for you if He should investigate your tactics ? Or as one deceives and mocks a man, do you deceive and mock Him? ¹⁰ He will surely reprove you if you do secretly show partiality. ¹¹ Shall not His majesty make you afraid, and should not your awe for Him restrain you? ¹² Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes ; your defenses are defenses of clay . ¹³ Hold your peace! Let me alone, so I may speak; and let come on me what may. ¹⁴ Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands ? ¹⁵ behold, He will slay me; I have no hope--nevertheless, I will maintain and argue my ways before Him and even to His face. ¹⁶ This will be my salvation, that a polluted and godless man shall not come before Him. ¹⁷ Listen diligently to my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears. ¹⁸ Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be justified and vindicated. ¹⁹ Who is he who will argue against and refute me? For then I would hold my peace and expire. ²⁰ Only grant two conditions to me, and then will I not hide myself from You: ²¹ Withdraw Your hand and take this bodily suffering far from me; and let not my dread of You terrify me. ²² Then call and I will answer, or let me speak, and You answer me. ²³ How many are my iniquities and sins ? Make me recognize and know my transgression and my sin. ²⁴ Why do You hide Your face and alienate me as if I were Your enemy? ²⁵ Will You harass and frighten a leaf driven to and fro, and will You pursue the chaff of the dry stubble? ²⁶ For You write bitter things against me and make me inherit and be accountable now for the iniquities of my youth. ²⁷ You put my feet also in the stocks and observe critically all my paths; You set a circle and limit around the soles of my feet . ²⁸ And he wastes away as a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.