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Job 13

1 Job compareth his knowledge with the experience of his friends. 16 The penitent shalbe saved, and the hypocrite condemned 20 He prayeth unto God that he wolde not handle him rigorously.
1.Lo, mine eye hathe sene all this: mine eare hathe heard, and understand it.
2.I knowe also asmuche as you knowe: I am not inferior unto you. Job’s confidence. Job. 13:
3.But I wil speake to the Almightie, and I desire ato dispute with God.
4.For in dede ye forge lyes, and all you are bphisicions of no value.
5.Oh, that you wolde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisdome!
6.Now heare my disputation, and give eare to the arguments of my lippes.
7.Wil ye speake cwickedly for God’s defence, and talke deceitfully for his cause?
8.Wil ye accept his persone? or wil ye contend for God?
9.Is it wel that he shulde seke of you? wil you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?
10.He wil surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept anie persone.
11.Shal not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall upon you?
12.Your dmemories may be compared unto ashes, and your bodies to bodies of claye.
13.Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come upon what wil.
14.Wherefore do I etake my flesh in my tethe, and put my soule in mine hand?
15.Lo, thogh he slay me, yet wil I trust in him, & I wil reprove my wayes in his sight.
16.He shal be my salvation also: for the fhypocrite shal not come before him.
17.Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke.
18.Beholde now: if I prepare me to judgement, I knowe that I shal be gjustified.
19.Who is he, that wil pleade hwith me? for if I now holde my tongue, I idye.
20.But do not these two things unto me: then wil I not hide my self from thee.
21.kWithdrawe thine hand from me, and let not thy feare make me afraied.
22.Then call thou, and I wil answer: or let me speake, and answer thou me.
23.How manie are lmine iniquities and sinnes? Shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne.
24.Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?
25.Wilt thou breake a leafe driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the drye stubble?
26.For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possesse mthe iniquities of my youth.
27.Thou puttest my fete also in the nstockes, and lokest narowly unto all my paths, and makest the printe thereof in the ^heeles of my fete.
28.Suche one consumeth like a roten thing, & as a garment that is motheaten.

Notes

3-a.
For although he knew that God had a justice, which was manifest in his ordinary working, and another in his secret counsel, yet he would utter his affection to God, because he was not able to understand the cause why he did thus punish him.
4-b.
You do not well apply your medicine to the disease.
7-c.
He condemns their zeal which had not knowledge, neither regarded they to comfort him, but always grated on God’s justice, as though it was not evidently seen in Job, except they had undertaken the probation thereof.
12-d.
Your fame shall come to nothing.
14-e.
Is not this a manifest sign of my affliction, and that I do not complain without cause, seeing that I am thus tormented as though I should tear my own flesh, and put my life in danger?
16-f.
Whereby he declares that he is not a hypocrite as they charged him.
18-g.
That is, cleared, and not cast off for my sins, as you reason.
19-h.
To prove that God does thus punish me for my sins.
19-i.
If I defend not my cause, every man will condemn me.
21-k.
He shows what these two things are.
23-l.
His pangs thus move him to reason with God, not denying but that he had sinned: but he desired to understand what were his great sins that had deserved such rigor, wherein he offended, that he would know a cause of God why he did punish him. 1 Geneva Bible 1560
26-m.
You punish me now for the fautes that I committed in my youth.
27-^.
Ebr., roots.
27-n.
You make me your prisoner, and do so press me that I can not stir hand nor foot.