Job 13:7-16 - Your Wisdom Misrepresents God

⁷ Will you speak wickedly on God's behalf? Will you speak deceitfully for him? ⁸ Will you show him partiality? Will you argue the case for God? ⁹ Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him? ¹⁰ He would certainly rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality! ¹¹ Would not his splendor terrify you and the fear he inspires fall on you? ¹² Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

¹³ "Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may. ¹⁴ Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands? ¹⁵ Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face! ¹⁶ Moreover, this will become my deliverance, for no godless person would come before him.