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The Book of Job 13

13 “I can assure you, my friends, that I already know everything that you have been telling me.

Yes, I have heard and understood all that you have said.

2 I know everything that you know.

I do not know less than you do.

3 But I would like to speak with Almighty God, not with you.

I would like to convince him that I am innocent.

4 As for you, you are telling so many lies about me

that other people can hardly recognize what I am really like.

Your advice is so worthless

that you are all like doctors who sell people useless medicine.

5 I wish that you would just stop talking.

Then you would really seem to be wise!

6 Please pay attention to what I am telling you!

7 You are speaking on God’s behalf,

but you are not telling the truth!

You are speaking deceptively,

but you think that you are helping God!

8 You are not being fair to me.

Instead, you are acting as if you are God’s lawyers defending him in court!

9 If God investigates what you are doing,

he will find that you are doing wrong.

No, you can not deceive him

as you might deceive a human being!

10 God would certainly rebuke you when he discovered that

you were pretending to be fair but were actually being unfair.

11 He would certainly bring the full force of his power against you.

That would make you very afraid of him!

12 You are quoting traditional sayings,

but they have no value in my situation.

Your arguments in support of your position

are very easy for someone to refute.

13 So stop talking to me. Allow me to speak.

I do not care what God does to me as a result of what I say.

14 I will be risking my life.

I will be taking the chance that God will execute me for what I say.

But I have good reason to do that.

15 Indeed, God might kill me for starting to argue a case against him,

but I hope that he would still judge me fairly after I die.

So I am going to defend my behavior to him in person.

16 I believe that arguing a case against God

will actually help convince God that I am innocent.

After all, no wicked person would dare to approach God personally.”

17 “God, listen very carefully to what I say.

Pay attention to me as I speak.

18 Please pay careful attention because I will be defending myself

by telling you things I have thought carefully about.

I have examined myself,

and I am convinced that I am innocent.

19 I do not believe that anyone could prove

that what I am going to say is false.

If I knew that it was false, I would not argue this case.

I would accept dying as my fair punishment.

20 However, I must ask you to stop doing two things to me.

Then I will be able to speak with you in person.

21 The first thing I ask is that you stop punishing me.

The second thing I ask is that you stop scaring me.

22 If you agree to stop punishing me and stop scaring me, then

go ahead and start questioning me, and I will respond.

Or allow me to question you first, and then you respond to my questions.

23 Tell me what I have done that is wrong.

Tell me what sins I have committed.

Show me how I have disobeyed you.

24 I do not understand why you are avoiding me.

I do not understand why you are treating me like your enemy.

25 I am as insignificant as a leaf that the wind blows,

so you do not need to punish me as if I were a dangerous criminal.

I am as unimportant as a bit of dry chaff,

so you do not need to chase me.

26 From the way I am suffering, it appears that you are punishing me because

you consider that I have done terrible things.

It seems that you are punishing me even for

the wrong things I did when I was young and I did not know any better.

27 It seems as if you are judging me too strictly, as if you had put chains on my feet to keep me from going anywhere.

It feels as if you are watching everything that I do very closely.

It is as if you will only let me do a few specific things.

28 But you do not need to watch me so closely.

I am a mere human being

with a body that is as fragile as rotten wood that is falling apart,

as fragile a piece of cloth that the larvae of moths are eating.

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