Job 13:7-16 - Your Wisdom Misrepresents God

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}.