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13:1  “Notice, my eye has seen all this; my ear has heard and understood it.
13:2  What you know, I also know the same; I am not inferior to you.
13:3  Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
13:4  But you are plasterers of falsehood; you are all physicians of no value.
13:5  Oh, that you would altogether hold your peace, and it would be your wisdom!
13:6  Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
13:7  Will you speak wickedly for God? And talk deceitfully for Him?
13:8  Will you take His side? Will you plead for God?
13:9  Is it good that He would search you out? Or as one man mocks another, do you so mock Him?
13:10  He will surely rebuke you, if you secretly show partiality.
13:11  Will not His excellence make you afraid, and the dread of Him fall upon you?
13:12  Your reminders are parables made of ashes; your answers are answers made of clay.
13:13  “Hold your peace; leave me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what may!
13:14  Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?
13:15  Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him, but I will defend my own ways before Him.
13:16  He also will be my salvation, for a hypocrite could not come before Him.
13:17  Listen carefully to my speech, and to my declaration with your ears.
13:18  See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I will be justified.
13:19  Who is he who will plead with me? For now, if I hold my tongue, I will give up my breath.
13:20  “Only grant me two things, then I will not hide myself from You:
13:21  Withdraw Your hand far from me, and let not the dread of You make me afraid.
13:22  Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and You answer me.
13:23  How many are my iniquities and sins? Make known to me my transgression and my sin.
13:24  Why do You hide Your face and regard me as Your enemy?
13:25  Will You frighten a leaf driven to and fro? And will You pursue dry stubble?
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 closely all my paths; You draw a line around the soles of my feet.
13:28  “Man, as a rotten thing, decays, as a garment that is moth eaten.