Job 13:1–14:22
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Job 13:1–14:22 · Psalm 93 (MT: 94) · Proverbs 22:26–27 · Romans 11:1–18
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1Behold, mine eye has seen these things, and mine ear has heard [them].
1Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2And I know all that ye too know; and I have not less understanding than you.
2What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
3Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will.
3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4But ye are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases.
4But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5But would that ye were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end.
5O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
6But hear ye the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips.
6Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7Do ye not speak before the Lord, and utter deceit before him?
7Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
8Or will ye draw back? nay, do ye yourselves be judges.
8Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
9For [it were] well if he would thoroughly search you: for though doing all things [in your power] ye should attach yourselves to him,
9Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
10he will not reprove you at all the less: but if moreover ye should secretly respect persons,
10He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11shall not his whirlpool sweep you round, and terror from him fall upon you?
11Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body [like a body] of clay.
12Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from [mine] anger,
13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
14while I may take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him.
15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
16And this shall turn to me for salvation; for fraud shall have no entrance before him.
16He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
17Hear, hear ye my words, for I will declare in your hearing.
17Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
18Behold , I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just.
18Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire?
19Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
20But grant me two things : then I will not hide myself from thy face.
20Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
21Withhold [thine] hand from me: and let not thy fear terrify me .
21Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
22Then shalt thou call , and I will hearken to thee: or thou shalt speak, and I will give thee an answer .
22Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
23How many are my sins and my transgressions? teach me what they are.
23How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24Wherefore hidest thou thyself from me, and deemest me thine enemy?
24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
25Wilt thou be startled [at me], as [at] a leaf shaken by the wind? or wilt thou set thyself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?
25Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
26For thou hast written evil things against me, and thou hast compassed me with the sins of my youth.
26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
27And thou hast placed my foot in the stocks; and thou hast watched all my works, and hast penetrated to my heels .
27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
28[I am as] that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth -eaten garment.
28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
1For a mortal born of a woman [is] short-lived, and full of wrath.
1Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
2Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.
2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
3Hast thou not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgment before thee?
3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
4For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one;
4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
5if even his life should be [but] one day upon the earth: and his months are numbered by him: thou hast appointed [him] for a time, and he shall by no means exceed [it].
5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his life, [though] as a hireling.
6Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
7For there is hope for a tree, even if it should be cut down, [that] it shall blossom again, and its branch shall not fail.
7For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
8For though its root should grow old in the earth, and its stem die in the rock;
8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
9it will blossom from the scent of water , and will produce a crop, as one newly planted.
9Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
10But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.
10But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
11For the sea wastes in [length of] time, and a river fails and is dried up.
11As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
12And man that has lain down [in death] shall certainly not rise again till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep.
12So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
13For oh that thou hadst kept me in the grave, and hadst hidden me until thy wrath should cease, and thou shouldest set me a time in which thou wouldest remember me!
13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14For if a man should die, shall he live [again], having accomplished the days of his life? I will waittill I exist again?
14If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
15Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: but do not thou reject the work of thine hands.
15Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
16But thou hast numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape thee?
16For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
17And thou hast sealed up my transgressions in a bag, and marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares.
17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
18And verily a mountain falling will utterly be destroyed, and a rock shall be worn out of its place.
18And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
19The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong [overflow] a heap of the earth: and thou destroyest the hope of man.
19The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
20Thou drivest him to an end, and he is gone: thou settest thy face against him, and sendest him away;
20Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
21and though his children be multiplied, he knows [it] not; and if they be few, he is not aware.
21His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
22But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns.
22But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.