Job 13:1-19 - Job's Fourth Speech Continues

¹ "Look, my eye has seen everything; my ear has heard and has understood it. ² {What you know}, I myself also know-- I [am] not more inferior than you. ³ But I would speak to Shaddai, and I desire to argue with God. ⁴ "But you {whitewash with lies}; all of you [are] {worthless healers}. ⁵ {O that} you would keep completely silent, and [that] it would become wisdom for you.

⁶ Please hear my argument, and listen attentively [to the] pleadings of my lips. ⁷ "Will you speak falsely for God? And will you speak deceitfully for him? ⁸ {Will you show partiality for him}? Or do you want to plead God's case? ⁹ [Will it be] well, if he examines you? Or can you deceive him like deceiving a human being? ¹⁰ "Surely he will rebuke you if {you show partiality} in secret. ¹¹ Will not his majesty terrify you, and his dread fall upon you? ¹² Your maxims [are] proverbs of ashes; your defenses [are] defenses of clay.

¹³ "{Let me have silence}, and I myself will speak, and let come over me whatever [may]. ¹⁴ Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand? ¹⁵ Look, [though] he kill me, I will hope in him; however, I will defend my ways {before him}. ¹⁶ Moreover, this [is] salvation to me, that [the] godless would not come {before him}. ¹⁷ "Listen carefully [to] my words, and [let] my exposition [be] in your ears. ¹⁸ Please look, I have prepared [my] case; I know that I myself will be vindicated. ¹⁹ Who [is] he who will contend with me? For {then} I would be silent, and I would pass away.