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| 13:1 |
"Look, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
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| 13:2 |
What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
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| 13:3 |
But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
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| 13:4 |
As for you, you whitewash with lies; all of you are worthless physicians.
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| 13:5 |
If you would only keep silent, that would be your wisdom!
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| 13:6 |
Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
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| 13:7 |
Will you speak falsely for God, and speak deceitfully for him?
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| 13:8 |
Will you show partiality toward him, will you plead the case for God?
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| 13:9 |
Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one person deceives another?
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| 13:10 |
He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.
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| 13:11 |
Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?
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| 13:12 |
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
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| 13:13 |
"Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
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| 13:14 |
I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
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| 13:15 |
See, he will kill me; I have no hope; but I will defend my ways to his face.
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| 13:16 |
This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him.
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| 13:17 |
Listen carefully to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.
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| 13:18 |
I have indeed prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.
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| 13:19 |
Who is there that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
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| 13:20 |
Only grant two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face:
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| 13:21 |
withdraw your hand far from me, and do not let dread of you terrify me.
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| 13:22 |
Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.
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| 13:23 |
How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
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| 13:24 |
Why do you hide your face, and count me as your enemy?
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| 13:25 |
Will you frighten a windblown leaf and pursue dry chaff?
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| 13:26 |
For you write bitter things against me, and make me reap the iniquities of my youth.
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| 13:27 |
You put my feet in the stocks, and watch all my paths; you set a bound to the soles of my feet.
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| 13:28 |
One wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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