nsb - Job:13

nsb@Job:13:1 @ »My eyes have seen all this and my ears have heard and understood it.

nsb@Job:13:2 @ »I know what you know. I am not inferior to you!

nsb@Job:13:3 @ »But I want to speak to the Almighty and to argue my case with God.

nsb@Job:13:4 @ »You are smearing me with lies. As doctors you are worthless, all of you!

nsb@Job:13:5 @ »If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.

nsb@Job:13:6 @ »Hear my argument. Listen to the plea of my lips.

nsb@Job:13:7 @ »Will you speak wickedly on Gods behalf? Will you speak deceitfully for him?

nsb@Job:13:8 @ »Will you show him partiality? Will you argue the case for God?

nsb@Job:13:9 @ »Would it turn out well if he examined you? Could you deceive him as you might deceive men?

nsb@Job:13:10 @ »He would rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.

nsb@Job:13:11 @ »Would not his excellence terrify you? Would not the dread of him fall on you?

nsb@Job:13:12 @ »Your platitudes are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.

nsb@Job:13:13 @ »Keep silent and let me speak! Then let come to me what may.

nsb@Job:13:14 @ »Why do I put myself in jeopardy and take my life in my hands?

nsb@Job:13:15 @ »Though he put me to death, yet I will hope in him. I will defend my ways before him.

nsb@Job:13:16 @ »Indeed, this will turn out for my deliverance, for no godless man would dare come before him!

nsb@Job:13:17 @ »Listen carefully to my words. Let your ears take in what I say.

nsb@Job:13:18 @ »Now that I have prepared my case, I know I will be vindicated.

nsb@Job:13:19 @ »Can anyone bring charges against me? If so, I will be silent and die.

nsb@Job:13:20 @ »Only grant me these two things, O God, and then I will not hide from you:

nsb@Job:13:21 @ Withdraw your hand far from me, and stop frightening me with your terrors.

nsb@Job:13:22 @ »Then summon me and I will answer, or let me speak, and you reply.

nsb@Job:13:23 @ How many wrongs and sins have I committed? Show me my transgressions and my sin.

nsb@Job:13:24 @ »Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?

nsb@Job:13:25 @ »Will you torment a leaf driven two and fro? Will you chase after dry chaff?

nsb@Job:13:26 @ »You write down bitter things against me and make me inherit the sins of my youth.

nsb@Job:13:27 @ »You fasten my feet in shackles. You keep close watch on all my paths by putting marks on the soles of my feet.

nsb@Job:13:28 @ »So man wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.