LEB by section JOB 13:0b

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

?:? Plural

?:? Literally “Like your knowledge”

?:? Emphatic personal pronoun

?:? Plural

?:? Or “And but”

?:? Plural

?:? Literally “coverers of lies”

?:? Plural

?:? Literally “healers of worthlessness”

?:? Literally “Who shall give”

?:? Plural

?:? Literally “his faces will you raise”

?:? Plural

?:? Literally “faces you lift up”

?:? Plural

?:? Literally “Be silent away from me”

?:? Emphatic personal pronoun

?:? Hebrew “now”

?:? Or “should I put,” or “will I put”

?:? Or “Though”

?:? Or “for”

?:? Literally “to his faces”

?:? Or “Look here”

?:? Emphatic personal pronoun