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I am not more fallen than you.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Yet I speak for the Mighty One, "" And I delight to argue for God.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And yet, you [are] forgers of falsehood, "" Physicians of nothing—all of you,<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>O that you would keep perfectly silent, "" And it would be to you for wisdom.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Please hear my argument, "" And attend to the pleadings of my lips,<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Do you speak perverseness for God? And do you speak deceit for Him?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Do you accept His face, if you strive for God?<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Is [it] good that He searches you, "" If, as one mocks at a man, you mock at Him?<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He surely reproves you, if you accept faces in secret.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Does His excellence not terrify you? And His dread fall on you?<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Your remembrances [are] allegories of ashes, "" For high places of clay [are] your heights.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Keep silent from me, and I speak, "" And pass over me what will.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Why do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold, He slays me—I do not wait! Only, I argue my ways to His face.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Also—He [is] to me for salvation, "" For the profane do not come before Him.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Hear my word diligently, "" And my declaration with your ears.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Now behold, I have set the cause in order, "" I have known that I am righteous.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Who [is] he that strives with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Only two things, O God, do with me, "" Then I am not hidden from Your face:<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Put Your hand far off from me, "" And do not let Your terror terrify me.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And You call, and I answer, "" Or—I speak, and You answer me.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>How many iniquities and sins do I have? Let me know my transgression and my sin.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Why do You hide Your face? And reckon me for an enemy to You?<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Do You terrify a leaf driven away? And do You pursue the dry stubble?<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For You write bitter things against me, "" And cause me to possess iniquities of my youth,<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And you put my feet in the stocks, "" And observe all my paths—You set a print on the roots of my feet,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And he, as a rotten thing, wears away, "" A moth has consumed him as a garment.”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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