Job 13:1–14:22
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Job 13:1–14:22 · Psalm 93 (MT: 94) · Proverbs 22:26–27 · Romans 11:1–18
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1Behold, mine eye has seen these things, and mine ear has heard [them].
1“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
2And I know all that ye too know; and I have not less understanding than you.
2What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
3Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will.
3“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
4But ye are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases.
4But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
5But would that ye were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end.
5Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
6But hear ye the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips.
6Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7Do ye not speak before the Lord, and utter deceit before him?
7Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
8Or will ye draw back? nay, do ye yourselves be judges.
8Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
9For [it were] well if he would thoroughly search you: for though doing all things [in your power] ye should attach yourselves to him,
9Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
10he will not reprove you at all the less: but if moreover ye should secretly respect persons,
10He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.
11shall not his whirlpool sweep you round, and terror from him fall upon you?
11Won’t his majesty make you afraid and his dread fall on you?
12And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body [like a body] of clay.
12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
13Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from [mine] anger,
13“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
14while I may take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
15Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him.
15Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
16And this shall turn to me for salvation; for fraud shall have no entrance before him.
16This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him.
17Hear, hear ye my words, for I will declare in your hearing.
17Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.
18Behold, I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just.
18See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
19For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire?
19Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit.
20But grant me two things: then I will not hide myself from thy face.
20“Only don’t do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face:
21Withhold [thine] hand from me: and let not thy fear terrify me .
21withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
22Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: or thou shalt speak, and I will give thee an answer .
22Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.
23How many are my sins and my transgressions? teach me what they are.
23How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
24Wherefore hidest thou thyself from me, and deemest me thine enemy?
24Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?
25Wilt thou be startled [at me], as [at] a leaf shaken by the wind? or wilt thou set thyself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?
25Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
26For thou hast written evil things against me, and thou hast compassed me with the sins of my youth.
26For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
27And thou hast placed my foot in the stocks; and thou hast watched all my works, and hast penetrated to my heels.
27You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
28[I am as] that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment.
28though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
1For a mortal born of a woman [is] short-lived, and full of wrath.
1“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
2Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.
2He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
3Hast thou not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgment before thee?
3Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
4For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one;
4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
5if even his life should be [but] one day upon the earth: and his months are numbered by him: thou hast appointed [him] for a time, and he shall by no means exceed [it].
5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
6Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his life, [though] as a hireling.
6Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
7For there is hope for a tree, even if it should be cut down, [that] it shall blossom again, and its branch shall not fail.
7“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
8For though its root should grow old in the earth, and its stem die in the rock;
8Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
9it will blossom from the scent of water , and will produce a crop, as one newly planted.
9yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.
10But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.
10But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
11For the sea wastes in [length of] time, and a river fails and is dried up.
11As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
12And man that has lain down [in death] shall certainly not rise again till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep.
12so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
13For oh that thou hadst kept me in the grave, and hadst hidden me until thy wrath should cease, and thou shouldest set me a time in which thou wouldest remember me!
13“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
14For if a man should die, shall he live [again], having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again?
14If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.
15Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: but do not thou reject the work of thine hands.
15You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
16But thou hast numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape thee?
16But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
17And thou hast sealed up my transgressions in a bag, and marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares.
17My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
18And verily a mountain falling will utterly be destroyed, and a rock shall be worn out of its place.
18“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place.
19The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong [overflow] a heap of the earth: and thou destroyest the hope of man.
19The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
20Thou drivest him to an end, and he is gone: thou settest thy face against him, and sendest him away;
20You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.
21and though his children be multiplied, he knows [it] not; and if they be few, he is not aware.
21His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
22But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns.
22But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”