### World English Bible

Job 12

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 13
#### 1 | 'Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and understood it.
#### 2 | What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
#### 3 | 'Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
#### 4 | But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
#### 5 | Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
#### 6 | Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
#### 7 | Will you speak unrighteously for God, And talk deceitfully for him?
#### 8 | Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
#### 9 | Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
#### 10 | He will surely reprove you If you secretly show partiality.
#### 11 | Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?
#### 12 | Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
#### 13 | 'Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
#### 14 | Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?
#### 15 | Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
#### 16 | This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him.
#### 17 | Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.
#### 18 | See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
#### 19 | Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
#### 20 | 'Only don't do two things to me; Then I will not hide myself from your face:
#### 21 | Withdraw your hand far from me; And don't let your terror make me afraid.
#### 22 | Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and you answer me.
#### 23 | How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
#### 24 | Why hide you your face, And hold me for your enemy?
#### 25 | Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
#### 26 | For you write bitter things against me, And make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
#### 27 | You also put my feet in the stocks, And mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet:
#### 28 | Though I am decaying like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

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