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Chapter 13 |
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1 | Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine
ear hath heard and understood it. |
| 2 | What ye know, the same do I
know also: I am not inferior unto you. |
| 3 | Surely I would speak to the
Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. |
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4 | But ye are forgers of
lies, ye are all physicians of no value. |
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5 | O that ye would altogether
hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. |
| 6 | Hear now my
reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. |
| 7 | Will ye speak
wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? |
| 8 | Will ye accept
his person? will ye contend for God? |
| 9 | Is it good that he should
search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? |
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He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. |
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Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
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| 12 | Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of
clay. |
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Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come
on me what will. |
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14 | Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put
my life in mine hand? |
| 15 | Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:
but I will maintain mine own ways before him. |
| 16 | He also
shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. |
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Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. |
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Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
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| 19 | Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall
give up the ghost. |
| 20 | Only do not two things unto me: then will I
not hide myself from thee. |
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21 | Withdraw thine hand far from me: and
let not thy dread make me afraid. |
| 22 | Then call thou, and I will
answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. |
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23 | How many are mine
iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. |
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? |
| 25 | Wilt
thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry
stubble? |
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| For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me
to possess the iniquities of my youth. |
| 27 | 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. |
| 28 | And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a
garment that is moth eaten. |
