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or will ye contende for God?<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly accept any person.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soule in mine hande?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He shalbe my saluation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Beholde nowe: if I prepare me to iudgement, I knowe that I shalbe iustified.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Withdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Howe many are mine iniquities & sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Thou puttest my feete also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in ye heeles of my feet.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Geneva Bible of 1587<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></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><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>