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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Job 13</title><link rel="canonical" href="//bibleapps.com/job/13.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/1500-3ch.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 850px), only screen and (max-device-width: 850px)" href="/850-ch.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/500s.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h450.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="40" scrolling="no" src="/mm/job/13-1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div id="fx3"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx4"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="51" scrolling="no" src="/homescreen.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="79" scrolling="no" src="//mbible.com/cm/job/13-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//bibleapps.com">Bible</a> > <a href="//bibleapps.com/job/">Job</a> > Chapter 13</div><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/job/12.htm" title="Job 12">◄</a> Job 13 <a href="/job/14.htm" title="Job 14">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">American Standard Version</div>Job Reproves his Friends <a href="/job/13-1.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">1Lo, mine eye hath seen all this , Mine ear hath heard and understood it.</a> <a href="/job/13-2.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">2What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.</a> <a href="/job/13-3.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.</a> <a href="/job/13-4.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">4But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.</a> <a href="/job/13-5.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">5Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.</a> <a href="/job/13-6.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">6Hear now my reasoning, And hearken to the pleadings of my lips.</a> <a href="/job/13-7.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">7Will ye speak unrighteously for God, And talk deceitfully for him?</a> <a href="/job/13-8.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">8Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God?</a> <a href="/job/13-9.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">9Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?</a> <a href="/job/13-10.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">10He will surely reprove you If ye do secretly show partiality.</a> <a href="/job/13-11.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">11Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall upon you?</a> <a href="/job/13-12.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.</a> <a href="/job/13-13.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will.</a> <a href="/job/13-14.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">14Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?</a> <a href="/job/13-15.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">15Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.</a> <a href="/job/13-16.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">16This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him.</a> <a href="/job/13-17.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">17Hear diligently my speech, And let my declaration be in your ears.</a> <a href="/job/13-18.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">18Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I am righteous.</a> <a href="/job/13-19.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">19Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.</a> <a href="/job/13-20.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">20Only do not two things unto me; Then will I not hide myself from thy face:</a> <a href="/job/13-21.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">21Withdraw thy hand far from me; And let not thy terror make me afraid.</a> <a href="/job/13-22.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">22Then call thou, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and answer thou me.</a> <a href="/job/13-23.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">23How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.</a> <a href="/job/13-24.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy?</a> <a href="/job/13-25.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">25Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?</a> <a href="/job/13-26.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">26For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth:</a> <a href="/job/13-27.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And markest all my paths; Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet:</a> <a href="/job/13-28.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">28Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.</a> <a href="//intbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy INT Bible © 2012, Used by Permission</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Outline</div>1. <a href="/job/13-1.htm">Job reproves his friends for partiality</a> 14. <a href="/job/13-14.htm">He professes his confidence in God; </a> 19. <a href="/job/13-19.htm">and entreats to know his own sins, and God's purpose in afflicting him</a> <div class="vheading2">Chapters</div><a href="/job/1.htm">Job 1: Job's Character and Wealth</a> <a href="/job/2.htm">Job 2: Job Loses his Health</a> <a href="/job/3.htm">Job 3: Job Laments his Birth </a> <a href="/job/4.htm">Job 4: Eliphaz: the Innocent Prosper </a> <a href="/job/5.htm">Job 5: Eliphaz Continues </a> <a href="/job/6.htm">Job 6: Job Replies: My Complaint is Just </a> <a href="/job/7.htm">Job 7: Job Continues: Life Seems Futile</a> <a href="/job/8.htm">Job 8: Bildad: Job Should Repent </a> <a href="/job/9.htm">Job 9: Job: No Arbiter Between God and Man</a> <a href="/job/10.htm">Job 10: Job's Plea to God </a> <a href="/job/11.htm">Job 11: Zophar Rebukes Job</a> <a href="/job/12.htm">Job 12: Job's Response to Zophar </a> <a href="/job/13.htm">Job 13: Job Reproves his Friends</a> <a href="/job/14.htm">Job 14: Job Acknowledges the Finality of Death</a> <a href="/job/15.htm">Job 15: Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God </a> <a href="/job/16.htm">Job 16: Job: Poor Comforters Are You </a> <a href="/job/17.htm">Job 17: Job Appeals From Men to God</a> <a href="/job/18.htm">Job 18: Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked </a> <a href="/job/19.htm">Job 19: Job: My Redeemer Lives </a> <a href="/job/20.htm">Job 20: Zophar: Triumph of the Wicked is Short</a> <a href="/job/21.htm">Job 21: Job: God Will Deal with the Wicked</a> <a href="/job/22.htm">Job 22: Eliphaz Accuses and Exhorts Job</a> <a href="/job/23.htm">Job 23: Job Responds: He Longs for God</a> <a href="/job/24.htm">Job 24: Job: Why Are the Wicked Unpunished </a> <a href="/job/25.htm">Job 25: Bildad: Man Cannot Be Righteous </a> <a href="/job/26.htm">Job 26: Job: who Can Understand God's Majesty</a> <a href="/job/27.htm">Job 27: Job Affirms his Integrity</a> <a href="/job/28.htm">Job 28: The Earth's Treasures</a> <a href="/job/29.htm">Job 29: Job's Former Blessings </a> <a href="/job/30.htm">Job 30: Job's Honor is Turned Into Contempt</a> <a href="/job/31.htm">Job 31: Job's Final Appeal </a> <a href="/job/32.htm">Job 32: Elihu Rebukes Job's Three Friends </a> <a href="/job/33.htm">Job 33: Elihu Rebukes Job </a> <a href="/job/34.htm">Job 34: Elihu Confirms God's Justice </a> <a href="/job/35.htm">Job 35: Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice </a> <a href="/job/36.htm">Job 36: Elihu Shows God's Justice and Power</a> <a href="/job/37.htm">Job 37: Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty </a> <a href="/job/38.htm">Job 38: God Challenges Job</a> <a href="/job/39.htm">Job 39: God Speaks of His Creation</a> <a href="/job/40.htm">Job 40: Job Humbles Himself Before God</a> <a href="/job/41.htm">Job 41: God's Power Shown in Creatures</a> <a href="/job/42.htm">Job 42: Job Submits Himself to God</a> </div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/job/12.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 12"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 12" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/job/14.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 14"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 14" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table><div align="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <a href="//bibleapps.com">Bible Apps.com</a> <iframe width="100%" height="1200" scrolling="no" src="/botmenutsk.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></body></html>