DRB | Part 2: Patriarchs 1

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Job 13

Job persists in maintaining his innocence: and reproves his friends.

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[1]⁠

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

[2]⁠

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

[3]⁠

But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

[4]⁠

Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.

[5]⁠

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

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[6]⁠

Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my lips.

[7]⁠

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

[8]⁠

Do you accept his person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?

[9]⁠

Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings?

[10]⁠

He shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person.

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[11]⁠

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

[12]⁠

Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.

[13]⁠

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

[14]⁠

Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?

[15]⁠

Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.

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[16]⁠

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

[17]⁠

Hear ye my speech, and receive with your ears hidden truths.

[18]⁠

If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.

[19]⁠

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

[20]⁠

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

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[21]⁠

Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me.

[22]⁠

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

[23]⁠

How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my crimes and offences.

[24]⁠

Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?

[25]⁠

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

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[26]⁠

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

[27]⁠

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

[28]⁠

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

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