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13:1  Behold my eye hath seen all these things, and my ear hath heard them, and I have understood them all.
13:2  According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you.
13:3  But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
13:4  Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.
13:5  And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men..
13:6  Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my lips.
13:7  Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?
13:8  Do you accept his person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?
13:9  Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed ? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings ?
13:10  He shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person.
13:11  As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you.
13:12  Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.
13:13  Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.
13:14  Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?
13:15  Although he should bill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.
13:16  And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before his presence.
13:17  Hear ye my speech, and receive with Sour ears hidden truths.
13:18  If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.
13:19  Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?
13:20  Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not be hid:
13:21  Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me.
13:22  Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me.
13:23  How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my crimes and offences.
13:24  Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?
13:25  Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.
13:26  For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me for the sins of my youth.
13:27  Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:
13:28  Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is moth-eaten.