# Job 13 
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1. “Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it. 
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2. What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. 
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3. But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God. 
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4. As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all. 
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5. Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom! 
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6. Hear now my argument and listen to the pleadings of my lips. 
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7. Will you speak falsely for God and speak deceitfully for him? 
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8. Will you show partiality toward him? Will you plead the case for God? 
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9. Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man? 
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10. He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality. 
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11. Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you? 
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12. Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay. 
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13. “Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may. 
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14. Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand? 
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15. Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face. 
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16. This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him. 
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17. Keep listening to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears. 
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18. Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right. 
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19. Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die. 
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20. Only grant me two things, then I will not hide myself from your face: 
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21. withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me. 
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22. Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me. 
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23. How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin. 
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24. Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy? 
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25. Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff? 
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26. For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth. 
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27. You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet. 
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28. Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten. 

(ESV)