LEB JOB Chapter 13

Job’s Fourth Speech Continues

• my ear has heard and has understood it.
• 2 [fn] know[fn] I myself[fn] also know— I am not more inferior than you.[fn]
• 3 and I desire to argue with God.
• 4 [fn] you[fn] [fn] all of you[fn] are[fn]
• 5 [fn] you[fn] would keep completely silent, and that it would become wisdom for you.[fn]
• 6 and listen attentively to the pleadings of my lips.
• 7 [fn] speak falsely for God? And will you[fn] speak deceitfully for him?
• 8 [fn] show partiality for him[fn] Or do you[fn] want to plead God’s case?
• 9 Will it be well, if he examines you?[fn] Or can you[fn] deceive him like deceiving a human being?
• 10 [fn] if[fn] show partiality[fn] in secret.
• 11 [fn] and his dread fall upon you?[fn]
• 12 [fn] maxims are proverbs of ashes; your[fn] defenses are defenses of clay.
• 13 [fn] and I myself[fn] will speak, and let come over me whatever may.
• 14  and[fn] put[fn] my life in my hand?
• 15 [fn] though he kill me, I will hope in[fn] him; however, I will defend my ways[fn]
• 16 is salvation to me, that the godless would not come[fn]
• 17 to my words, and let my exposition be in your ears.
• 18 [fn] I have prepared my case; I know that I myself[fn] will be vindicated.
• 19 is he who will contend with me? For

Job Argues His Case with God

• 20 [fn] must not do these two things to me; then I will not hide from your face:
• 21 [fn] hand from me, and let not your[fn] dread terrify me.
• 22 [fn] call, and I myself[fn] will answer; or let me speak, then[fn] reply to me.
• 23 [fn] are my iniquities and sins? Make known to me my transgression and my sin.
• 24 [fn] hide your[fn] face and count me as your[fn] enemy?
• 25 [fn] terrify a blown leaf? And will you[fn] pursue dry stubble?
• 26 [fn] write bitter things against me, and you[fn] make me reap the iniquities of my childhood.
• 27 [fn] put my feet in the block, and you[fn] watch all my paths;
• you carve a mark on the soles of my feet.[fn]
• 28 [fn]wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that the moth has eaten.