Job 13 - ESV Bible - "Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has...

1 "Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

2 ¹What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

3 ²But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to ³argue my case with God.

4 As for you, ⁴you whitewash with lies; ⁵worthless physicians are you all.

5 Oh that you would ⁶keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!

6 Hear now my argument and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

7 Will you ⁷speak falsely for God and speak ⁸deceitfully for him?

8 Will you show partiality toward him? Will you ⁹plead the case for God?

9 Will it be well with you when he ¹⁰searches you out? Or ¹¹can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?

10 He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.

11 Will not his ¹²majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?

12 Your maxims are proverbs of ¹³ashes; 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 ¹⁴put my life in my hand?

15 ¹⁵Though he slay me, I will ¹⁶hope in him;^a yet I will ¹⁷argue my ways to his face.

16 This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him.

17 ¹⁸Keep listening to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.

18 Behold, I have ¹⁹prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.

19 ²⁰Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.

20 Only grant me two things, then I will not ²¹hide myself from your face:

21 ²²withdraw your hand far from me, and let not ²³dread of you terrify me.

22 ²⁴Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.

23 How many are my iniquities and my sins? ²⁵Make me know my transgression and my sin.

24 Why ²⁶do you hide your face and ²⁷count me as your enemy?

25 Will you frighten ²⁸a driven leaf and pursue dry ²⁹chaff?

26 For you ³⁰write bitter things against me and make me inherit ³¹the iniquities of my youth.

27 You put my feet in ³²the stocks and ³³watch all my paths; you set a limit for^b the soles of my feet.

28 Man^c wastes away like ³⁴a rotten thing, like a garment that is ³⁵moth-eaten.

Job 13 ESV