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13:1  “Look, my eye has seen everything; my ear has heard and has understood it.
13:2  What you know, I myself also know— I am not more inferior than you.
13:3  But I would speak to Shaddai, and I desire to argue with God.
13:4  “But you whitewash with lies; all of you are worthless healers.
13:5  O that you would keep completely silent, and that it would become wisdom for you.
13:6  Please hear my argument, and listen attentively to the pleadings of my lips.
13:7  “Will you speak falsely for God? And will you speak deceitfully for him?
13:8  Will you show partiality for him? Or do you want to plead God’s case?
13:9  Will it be well, if he examines you? Or can you deceive him like deceiving a human being?
13:10  “Surely he will rebuke you if you show partiality in secret.
13:11  Will not his majesty terrify you, and his dread fall upon you?
13:12  Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
13:13  “Let me have silence, and I myself will speak, and let come over me whatever may.
13:14  Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?
13:15  Look, though he kill me, I will hope in him; however, I will defend my ways before him.
13:16  Moreover, this is salvation to me, that the godless would not come before him.
13:17  “Listen carefully to my words, and let my exposition be in your ears.
13:18  Please look, I have prepared my case; I know that I myself will be vindicated.
13:19  Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would be silent, and I would pass away.
13:20  “Only you must not do these two things to me; then I will not hide from your face:
13:21  withdraw your hand from me, and let not your dread terrify me.
13:22  Then call, and I myself will answer; or let me speak, then reply to 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 count me as your enemy?
13:25  Will you terrify a blown leaf? And will you pursue dry stubble?
13:26  “Indeed, you write bitter things against me, and you make me reap the iniquities of my childhood.
13:27  And you put my feet in the block, and you watch all my paths; you carve a mark on the soles of my feet.
13:28  And he himself wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that the moth has eaten.