Job:13

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* Lo , mine eye hath seen all [this ], mine ear hath heard and understood it . * What ye know , I know also : I am not inferior to you . * But I will speak to the Almighty , and will find pleasure in reasoning with �God ; * For ye indeed are forgers of lies , ye are all physicians of no value . * Oh that ye would be altogether silent ! and it would be your wisdom . * Hear now my defence , and hearken to the pleadings of my lips . * Will ye speak unrighteously for �God ? and for him speak deceit ? * Will ye accept his person ? will ye contend for �God ? * Will it be well if he should search you out ? or as one mocketh at a man , will ye mock at him ? * He will certainly reprove you , if ye do secretly accept persons . * Shall not his excellency terrify you ? and his dread fall upon you ? * Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes , your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire . * Hold your peace from me , and I will speak , and let come on me what [will ]! * Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth , and put my life in my hand ? * Behold , if he slay me , yet would I trust in him ; but I will defend mine own ways before him . * This also shall be my salvation , that a profane man shall not come before his face . * Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears . * Behold now , I have ordered the cause ; I know that I shall be justified . * Who is he that contendeth with me ? For if I were silent now , I should expire . * Only do not two things unto me ; then will I not hide myself from thee . * Withdraw thy hand far from me ; and let not thy terror make me afraid : * Then call , and I will answer ; or I will speak , and answer thou me . * How many are mine iniquities and sins ? Make me to know my transgression and my sin . * Wherefore dost thou hide thy face , and countest me for thine enemy ? * Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf ? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble ? * For thou writest bitter things against me , and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth ; * And thou puttest my feet in the stocks , and markest all my paths ; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet ; -- * One who , as a rotten thing consumeth , as a garment that the moth eateth .

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