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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, 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 ye are forgers of lies; ye are all physicians of no value.
13:5  O that ye 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 ye speak wickedly for God, and talk deceitfully for Him?
13:8  Will ye accept His person; will ye contend for God?
13:9  Is it good that He should search you out? Or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock Him?
13:10  He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
13:11  Shall not His excellency make you afraid, and His dread fall upon you?
13:12  Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies 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 mine hand?
13:15  Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him; but I will argue mine 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 cause; I know that I shall be justified.
13:19  Who is he that will plead with me? For now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
13:20  “Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from Thee:
13:21  Withdraw Thine hand far from me, and let not Thy dread make me afraid.
13:22  Then call Thou, and I will answer; or let me 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  Why hidest Thou Thy face, and holdest me for Thine enemy?
13:25  Wilt Thou break a leaf driven to and fro? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?
13:26  For Thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
13:27  Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; Thou settest a mark upon the heels of my feet.
13:28  And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is motheaten.