Job 13
Job Continues: Let Me Speak to the Almighty
1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. Parallel theme: Job 12:3, 2 Corinthians 12:11
3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. Parallel theme: Job 9:3, 13:22, 31:35, Isaiah 41:21
4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. Parallel theme: Job 16:2, Psalms 119:69, Jeremiah 6:14, 8:22, 23:32, 30:13, 46:11, Ezekiel 34:4, Mark 2:17, 5:26 +5
5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. Peace: Job 13:13, Proverbs 17:28. Parallel theme: Ecclesiastes 5:3, James 1:19
6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? Parallel theme: Job 36:4
8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for GodGod: אֱלֹהִים (Elohim). The Hebrew Elohim (אֱלֹהִים) is a plural form denoting majesty and fullness of deity. Though grammatically plural, it takes singular verbs when referring to the one true God, suggesting the Trinity's plurality within unity.? Parallel theme: Proverbs 24:23
9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? Parallel theme: Psalms 44:21, Jeremiah 17:10
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. Parallel theme: James 2:9
11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? Parallel theme: Job 31:23, Psalms 119:120
12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
I Will Argue My Case Before God
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. Peace: Job 13:5. Parallel theme: Job 7:11, 21:3
14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? Parallel theme: Job 18:4, Judges 12:3, 1 Samuel 19:5, 28:21, Psalms 119:109, Ecclesiastes 4:5
15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. Parallel theme: Job 7:6, 13:18, 16:21, 23:10, 27:5, 40:2, 40:8, Psalms 23:4, Proverbs 14:32, 1 John 3:20 +5
16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. Salvation: Exodus 15:2, Psalms 27:1, 118:14, 118:21, Jeremiah 3:23, Acts 13:47. Parallel theme: Job 8:13, 36:13, Isaiah 33:14 +4
17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. Righteousness: Job 9:20, Isaiah 43:26. Parallel theme: Job 16:21, 23:4, 2 Corinthians 1:12
19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. Parallel theme: Job 9:34, 33:7, Psalms 39:10
22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. Parallel theme: Job 14:15
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. Parallel theme: Psalms 139:23
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? Parallel theme: Job 19:11, 33:10, Deuteronomy 32:20, Psalms 13:1, 44:24, 88:14, Isaiah 8:17, Lamentations 2:5 +3
25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? Parallel theme: Job 21:18, Leviticus 26:36
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
27 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. Parallel theme: Job 33:11
28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. Parallel theme: Job 4:19, Psalms 39:11