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13:1  Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
13:2  What you know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
13:3  Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
13:4  But you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value.
13:5  O that you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
13:6  Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
13:7  Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
13:8  Will you accept his person? will you contend for God?
13:9  Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?
13:10  He will surely reprove you, if you do secretly show partiality.
13:11  Shall not his excellence make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
13:12  Your proverbs are like unto ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
13:13  Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
13:14  Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
13:15  Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will defend my own ways before him.
13:16  He also shall be my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him.
13:17  Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
13:18  Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be justified.
13:19  Who is he that will contend with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall die.
13:20  Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from you.
13:21  Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid.
13:22  Then call, and I will answer: or let me speak, and you answer me.
13:23  How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my transgression and my sin.
13:24  Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
13:25  Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? and will you pursue the dry stubble?
13:26  For you write bitter things against me, and make me possess the iniquities of my youth.
13:27  You put my feet also in the stocks, and watch closely all my paths; you set a bound to the soles of my feet.
13:28  And he, like a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth-eaten.