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13:1  Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
13:2  What ye know, I know also: I am not inferior to you.
13:3  But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with �God;
13:4  For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
13:5  Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom.
13:6  Hear now my defence, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
13:7  Will ye speak unrighteously for �God? and for him speak deceit?
13:8  Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for �God?
13:9  Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?
13:10  He will certainly reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
13:11  Shall not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?
13:12  Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
13:13  Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what will!
13:14  Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
13:15  Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him.
13:16  This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face.
13:17  Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears.
13:18  Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified.
13:19  Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.
13:20  Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee.
13:21  Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid:
13:22  Then call, and I will answer; or I will speak, and answer thou me.
13:23  How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
13:24  Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?
13:25  Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
13:26  For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth;
13:27  And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; --
13:28  One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.