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Job Continues: Still I Will Hope in God
“Behold, my eye has seen all this,
my ear has heard and understood it.
“Behold, my eye has seen all this,
my ear has heard and understood it.
Job Reproves his Friends
Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it.
What you know, I also know;
I am not inferior to you.
I am not inferior to you.
What ye know, I know also: I am not inferior to you.
But I would speak to the Almighty,
and I desire to argue my case with God.
and I desire to argue my case with God.
But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with God;
As for you, you whitewash with lies;
worthless physicians are you all.
worthless physicians are you all.
For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Oh that you would keep silent,
and it would be your wisdom!
and it would be your wisdom!
Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom.
Hear now my argument
and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
Hear now my defence, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Will you speak falsely for God
and speak deceitfully for him?
and speak deceitfully for him?
Will ye speak unrighteously for God? and for him speak deceit?
Will you show partiality toward him?
Will you plead the case for God?
Will you plead the case for God?
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Will it be well with you when he searches you out?
Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?
He will surely rebuke you
if in secret you show partiality.
if in secret you show partiality.
He will certainly reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Will not his majesty terrify you,
and the dread of him fall upon you?
and the dread of him fall upon you?
Shall not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;
your defenses are defenses of clay.
your defenses are defenses of clay.
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
“Let me have silence, and I will speak,
and let come on me what may.
and let come on me what may.
Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what [will]!
Why should I take my flesh in my teeth
and put my life in my hand?
and put my life in my hand?
Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him.
This will be my salvation,
that the godless shall not come before him.
that the godless shall not come before him.
This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face.
Keep listening to my words,
and let my declaration be in your ears.
and let my declaration be in your ears.
Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears.
Behold, I have prepared my case;
I know that I shall be in the right.
I know that I shall be in the right.
Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Who is there who will contend with me?
For then I would be silent and die.
For then I would be silent and die.
Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.
Only grant me two things,
then I will not hide myself from your face:
then I will not hide myself from your face:
Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee.
withdraw your hand far from me,
and let not dread of you terrify me.
and let not dread of you terrify me.
Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid:
Then call, and I will answer;
or let me speak, and you reply to me.
or let me speak, and you reply to me.
Then call, and I will answer; or I will speak, and answer thou me.
How many are my iniquities and my sins?
Make me know my transgression and my sin.
Make me know my transgression and my sin.
How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Why do you hide your face
and count me as your enemy?
and count me as your enemy?
Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?
Will you frighten a driven leaf
and pursue dry chaff?
and pursue dry chaff?
Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
For you write bitter things against me
and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth;
And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; --