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title="Job 12">◄</a> Job 13 <a href="../job/14.htm" title="Job 14">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/13.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Job Continues: Still I Will Hope in God</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Behold, my eye has seen all this,</span><br /><span class="indent">my ear has heard and understood it.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">What you know, I also know;</span><br /><span class="indent">I am not inferior to you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But I would speak to the Almighty,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I desire to argue my case with God.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">As for you, you whitewash with lies;</span><br /><span class="indent">worthless physicians are you all.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Oh that you would keep silent,</span><br /><span class="indent">and it would be your wisdom!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Hear now my argument</span><br /><span class="indent">and listen to the pleadings of my lips.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Will you speak falsely for God</span><br /><span class="indent">and speak deceitfully for him?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Will you show partiality toward him?</span><br /><span class="indent">Will you plead the case for God?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Will it be well with you when he searches you out?</span><br /><span class="indent">Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He will surely rebuke you</span><br /><span class="indent">if in secret you show partiality.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Will not his majesty terrify you,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the dread of him fall upon you?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;</span><br /><span class="indent">your defenses are defenses of clay.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Let me have silence, and I will speak,</span><br /><span class="indent">and let come on me what may.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Why should I take my flesh in my teeth</span><br /><span class="indent">and put my life in my hand?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Though he slay me, I will hope in him;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">yet I will argue my ways to his face.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">This will be my salvation,</span><br /><span class="indent">that the godless shall not come before him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Keep listening to my words,</span><br /><span class="indent">and let my declaration be in your ears.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, I have prepared my case;</span><br /><span class="indent">I know that I shall be in the right.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Who is there who will contend with me?</span><br /><span class="indent">For then I would be silent and die.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Only grant me two things,</span><br /><span class="indent">then I will not hide myself from your face:</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">withdraw your hand far from me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and let not dread of you terrify me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Then call, and I will answer;</span><br /><span class="indent">or let me speak, and you reply to me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">How many are my iniquities and my sins?</span><br /><span class="indent">Make me know my transgression and my sin.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Why do you hide your face</span><br /><span class="indent">and count me as your enemy?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Will you frighten a driven leaf</span><br /><span class="indent">and pursue dry chaff?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For you write bitter things against me</span><br /><span class="indent">and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You put my feet in the stocks</span><br /><span class="indent">and watch all my paths;</span><br /><span class="indent">you set a limit for<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or you marked">b</a></sup></span> the soles of my feet.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Man<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew He">c</a></sup></span> wastes away like a rotten thing,</span><br /><span class="indent">like a garment that is moth-eaten.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i>Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">you</span> marked</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">28</span> Hebrew <i>He</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a 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