Job:13-14

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* Lo , mine eye hath seen all this , mine ear hath heard and understood it . * What ye know , the same do I know also : I am not inferior unto you . * Surely I would speak to the Almighty , and I desire to reason with God . * But ye are forgers of lies , ye are all physicians of no value . * O that ye would altogether hold your peace ! and it should be your wisdom . * Hear now my reasoning , and hearken to the pleadings of my lips . * Will ye speak wickedly for God ? and talk deceitfully for him ? * Will ye accept his person ? will ye contend for God ? * Is it good that he should search you out ? or as one man mocketh another , do ye so mock him ? * He will surely reprove you , if ye do secretly accept persons . * Shall not his excellency make you afraid ? and his dread fall upon you ? * Your remembrances are like unto ashes , your bodies to bodies of clay . * Hold your peace , let me alone , that I may speak , and let come on me what will . * Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth , and put my life in mine hand ? * Though he slay me , yet will I trust in him : but I will maintain mine own ways before him . * He also shall be my salvation : for an hypocrite shall not come before him . * Hear diligently my speech , and my declaration with your ears . * Behold now , I have ordered my cause ; I know that I shall be justified . * Who is he that will plead with me ? for now , if I hold my tongue , I shall give up the ghost . * Only do not two things unto me : then will I not hide myself from thee . * Withdraw thine hand far from me : and let not thy dread make me afraid . * Then call thou , and I will answer : or let me speak , and answer thou me . * How many are mine iniquities and sins ? make me to know my transgression and my sin . * Wherefore hidest thou thy face , and holdest me for thine enemy ? * Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro ? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble ? * For thou writest bitter things against me , and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth . * Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks , and lookest narrowly unto all my paths ; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet . * And he , as a rotten thing , consumeth , as a garment that is moth eaten . * Man that is born of a woman is of few days , and full of trouble . * He cometh forth like a flower , and is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow , and continueth not . * And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one , and bringest me into judgment with thee ? * Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean ? not one . * Seeing his days are determined , the number of his months are with thee , thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass ; * Turn from him , that he may rest , till he shall accomplish , as an hireling , his day . * For there is hope of a tree , if it be cut down , that it will sprout again , and that the tender branch thereof will not cease . * Though the root thereof wax old in the earth , and the stock thereof die in the ground ; * Yet through the scent of water it will bud , and bring forth boughs like a plant . * But man dieth , and wasteth away : yea , man giveth up the ghost , and where is he ? * As the waters fail from the sea , and the flood decayeth and drieth up : * So man lieth down , and riseth not : till the heavens be no more , they shall not awake , nor be raised out of their sleep . * O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave , that thou wouldest keep me secret , until thy wrath be past , that thou wouldest appoint me a set time , and remember me ! * If a man die , shall he live again ? all the days of my appointed time will I wait , till my change come . * Thou shalt call , and I will answer thee : thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands . * For now thou numberest my steps : dost thou not watch over my sin ? * My transgression is sealed up in a bag , and thou sewest up mine iniquity . * And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought , and the rock is removed out of his place . * The waters wear the stones : thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth ; and thou destroyest the hope of man . * Thou prevailest for ever against him , and he passeth : thou changest his countenance , and sendest him away . * His sons come to honour , and he knoweth it not ; and they are brought low , but he perceiveth it not of them . * But his flesh upon him shall have pain , and his soul within him shall mourn . * Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite , and said ,

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