Douay Bible - Job Chapter 13

Job 13:1
Behold my eye hath seen all these things, and my ear hath heard them, and I have understood them all.

Job 13:2
According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you.

Job 13:3
But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

Job 13:4
Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.

Job 13:5
And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men..

Job 13:6
Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my lips.

Job 13:7
Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?

Job 13:8
Do you accept his person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?

Job 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 ?

Job 13:10
He shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person.

Job 13:11
As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you.

Job 13:12
Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.

Job 13:13
Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.

Job 13:14
Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?

Job 13:15
Although he should bill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.

Job 13:16
And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before his presence.

Job 13:17
Hear ye my speech, and receive with Sour ears hidden truths.

Job 13:18
If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.

Job 13:19
Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?

Job 13:20
Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not be hid:

Job 13:21
Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me.

Job 13:22
Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me.

Job 13:23
How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my crimes and offences.

Job 13:24
Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?

Job 13:25
Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.

Job 13:26
For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me for the sins of my youth.

Job 13:27
Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:

Job 13:28
Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is moth-eaten.

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