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Job 13 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:1 - “Behold, my eye has seen all this,
My ear has heard and understood it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:2 - What you know, I also know;
I am not inferior to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:3 - But I would speak to the Almighty,
And I desire to reason with God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:4 - But you forgers of lies,
You are all worthless physicians.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:5 - Oh, that you would be silent,
And it would be your wisdom!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:6 - Now hear my reasoning,
And heed the pleadings of my lips.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:7 - Will you speak wickedly for God,
And talk deceitfully for Him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:8 - Will you show partiality for Him?
Will you contend for God?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:9 - Will it be well when He searches you out?
Or can you mock Him as one mocks a man?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:10 - He will surely rebuke you
If you secretly show partiality.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:11 - Will not His excellence make you afraid,
And the dread of Him fall upon you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:12 - Your platitudes are proverbs of ashes,
Your defenses are defenses of clay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:13 - “Hold your peace with me, and let me speak,
Then let come on me what may!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:14 - Why do I take my flesh in my teeth,
And put my life in my hands?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:15 - Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.
Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:16 - He also shall be my salvation,
For a hypocrite could not come before Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:17 - Listen carefully to my speech,
And to my declaration with your ears.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:18 - See now, I have prepared my case,
I know that I shall be vindicated.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:19 - Who is he who will contend with me?
If now I hold my tongue, I perish.
Job’s Despondent Prayer

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:20 - “Only two things do not do to me,
Then I will not hide myself from You:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:21 - Withdraw Your hand far from me,
And let not the dread of You make me afraid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:22 - Then call, and I will answer;
Or let me speak, then You respond to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:23 - How many are my iniquities and sins?
Make me know my transgression and my sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:24 - Why do You hide Your face,
And regard me as Your enemy?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:25 - Will You frighten a leaf driven to and fro?
And will You pursue dry stubble?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:26 - For You write bitter things against me,
And make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:27 - You put my feet in the stocks,
And watch closely all my paths.
You set a limit[fn] for the soles of my feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:28 - “Man[fn] decays like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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New King James Version, © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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For more information on this translation, see the NKJV Preface.

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