Job 13:7-16 - Your Wisdom Misrepresents God

⁷ Will you speak falsely for God and speak deceitfully for him? ⁸ Will you show partiality toward him? Will you plead the case for God? ⁹ Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man? ¹⁰ He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality. ¹¹ Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you? ¹² Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

¹³ "Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may. ¹⁴ Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand? ¹⁵ Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face. ¹⁶ This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him.