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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  Oh 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 unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
13:8  Will ye respect his person? will ye contend for God?
13:9  Is it good that he should search you out? or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?
13:10  He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly respect persons.
13:11  Shall not his excellency make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?
13:12  Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your defences are defences of clay.
13:13  Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what wilt.
13:14  Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
13:15  Though he slay me, yet will I wait for him: nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.
13:16  This also shall be my salvation; for a godless man shall not come before him.
13:17  Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.
13:18  Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I am righteous.
13:19  Who is he that will contend with me? for now shall I hold my peace and give up the ghost.
13:20  Only do not two things unto me, then will I not hide myself from thy face:
13:21  Withdraw thine hand far from me; and let not thy terror 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  Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
13:25  Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
13:26  For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth:
13:27  Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou drawest thee a line about the soles of my feet:
13:28  Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten.