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13:1  “Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
13:2  What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
13:3  But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
13:4  As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
13:5  Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
13:6  Hear now my argument and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
13:7  Will you speak falsely for God and speak deceitfully for him?
13:8  Will you show partiality towards him? Will you plead the case for God?
13:9  Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
13:10  He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.
13:11  Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?
13:12  Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defences are defences of clay.
13:13  “Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
13:14  Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?
13:15  Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.
13:16  This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him.
13:17  Keep listening to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.
13:18  Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.
13:19  Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
13:20  Only grant me two things, then I will not hide myself from your face:
13:21  withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me.
13:22  Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.
13:23  How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
13:24  Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?
13:25  Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
13:26  For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
13:27  You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet.
13:28  Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.