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

¹ Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it. ² What you know, I know also; I do not fall short of you. ³ Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case before God. ⁴ But you are imputers of lies; you are all worthless healers. ⁵ Oh that you would stop speaking entirely! And it would be your wisdom.

⁶ Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips. ⁷ Would you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for Him? ⁸ Will you lift up His person, or contend for God? ⁹ Is it good that He should search you out? Or as one man mocks another, do you mock Him? ¹⁰ He will surely blame you, if you secretly lift up persons. ¹¹ Shall not His highness make you afraid, and His dread fall on you? ¹² Your remembered sayings are like ashes, your bodies like bodies of clay.

¹³ Be quiet. Let me alone so that I may speak, and let come on me what may. ¹⁴ Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand? ¹⁵ Though he slay me, I will not wait, but I will maintain my own ways before Him. ¹⁶ He also is my salvation, for an ungodly one shall not come before Him. ¹⁷ Listen carefully to my words, and let what I say be in your ears. ¹⁸ Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I shall be justified. ¹⁹ Who is he that will plead for me, for now, I would be quiet and expire.