Job 13

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¹Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. ✦ ²What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. ✦ ³Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. ✦ ⁴But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. ✦ ⁵O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. ✦ ⁶Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. ✦ ⁷Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? ✦ ⁸Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? ✦ ⁹Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? ✦ ¹⁰He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. ✦ ¹¹Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? ✦ ¹²Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. ✦ ¹³Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. ✦ ¹⁴Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? ✦ ¹⁵Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. ✦ ¹⁶He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. ✦ ¹⁷Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. ✦ ¹⁸Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. ✦ ¹⁹Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. ✦ ²⁰Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. ✦ ²¹Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. ✦ ²²Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. ✦ ²³How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. ✦ ²⁴Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? ✦ ²⁵Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? ✦ ²⁶For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. ✦ ²⁷Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. ✦ ²⁸And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Job 9 ·9 Job 13 ·9 Job 33 ·7 Job 16 ·7 Job 21 ·6 Job 10 ·6 Job 40 ·6 Job 4 ·5

Christ at the center

Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

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