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Job Wants to Argue His Case with God
“Look, I have seen all this with my own eyes
and heard it with my own ears, and now I understand.
“Look, I have seen all this with my own eyes
and heard it with my own ears, and now I understand.
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.
I know as much as you do.
You are no better than I am.
You are no better than I am.
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
As for me, I would speak directly to the Almighty.
I want to argue my case with God himself.
I want to argue my case with God himself.
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
As for you, you smear me with lies.
As physicians, you are worthless quacks.
As physicians, you are worthless quacks.
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
If only you could be silent!
That’s the wisest thing you could do.
That’s the wisest thing you could do.
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Listen to my charge;
pay attention to my arguments.
pay attention to my arguments.
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
“Are you defending God with lies?
Do you make your dishonest arguments for his sake?
Do you make your dishonest arguments for his sake?
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
Will you slant your testimony in his favor?
Will you argue God’s case for him?
Will you argue God’s case for him?
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
What will happen when he finds out what you are doing?
Can you fool him as easily as you fool people?
Can you fool him as easily as you fool people?
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
No, you will be in trouble with him
if you secretly slant your testimony in his favor.
if you secretly slant your testimony in his favor.
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Doesn’t his majesty terrify you?
Doesn’t your fear of him overwhelm you?
Doesn’t your fear of him overwhelm you?
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
Your platitudes are as valuable as ashes.
Your defense is as fragile as a clay pot.
Your defense is as fragile as a clay pot.
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
“Be silent now and leave me alone.
Let me speak, and I will face the consequences.
Let me speak, and I will face the consequences.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
But this is what will save me — I am not godless.
If I were, I could not stand before him.
If I were, I could not stand before him.
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
“Listen closely to what I am about to say.
Hear me out.
Hear me out.
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
I have prepared my case;
I will be proved innocent.
I will be proved innocent.
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Who can argue with me over this?
And if you prove me wrong, I will remain silent and die.
Job Asks How He Has Sinned
And if you prove me wrong, I will remain silent and die.
Job Asks How He Has Sinned
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
“O God, grant me these two things,
and then I will be able to face you.
and then I will be able to face you.
Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
Remove your heavy hand from me,
and don’t terrify me with your awesome presence.
and don’t terrify me with your awesome presence.
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Now summon me, and I will answer!
Or let me speak to you, and you reply.
Or let me speak to you, and you reply.
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Tell me, what have I done wrong?
Show me my rebellion and my sin.
Show me my rebellion and my sin.
How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Why do you turn away from me?
Why do you treat me as your enemy?
Why do you treat me as your enemy?
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Would you terrify a leaf blown by the wind?
Would you chase dry straw?
Would you chase dry straw?
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
“You write bitter accusations against me
and bring up all the sins of my youth.
and bring up all the sins of my youth.
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
You put my feet in stocks.
You examine all my paths.
You trace all my footprints.
You examine all my paths.
You trace all my footprints.
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.