Job 13

²What you know, I know also.

³“Surely I would speak to the Almighty.

⁴But you are forgers of lies.

⁵Oh that you would be completely silent!

⁶Hear now my reasoning.

⁷Will you speak unrighteously for God,

⁸Will you show partiality to him?

⁹Is it good that he should search you out?

¹⁰He will surely reprove you

¹¹Won’t his majesty make you afraid

¹²Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes.

¹³“Be silent!

¹⁴Why should I take my flesh in my teeth,

¹⁵Behold, he will kill me.

¹⁶This also will be my salvation,

¹⁷Listen carefully to my speech.

¹⁸See now, I have set my cause in order.

¹⁹Who is he who will contend with me?

²⁰“Only don’t do two things to me,

²¹withdraw your hand far from me,

²²Then call, and I will answer,

²³How many are my iniquities and sins?

²⁴Why do you hide your face,

²⁵Will you harass a driven leaf?

²⁶For you write bitter things against me,

²⁷You also put my feet in the stocks,

²⁸though I am decaying like a rotten thing,