Job 13
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
World English Bible
1Behold my eye hath seen all these things, and my ear hath heard them, and I have understood them all.
1“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
2According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you.
2What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
3But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
3“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
4Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.
4But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
5And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.
5Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
6Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my lips.
6Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?
7Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
8Do you accept his person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?
8Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
9Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings?
9Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
10He shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person.
10He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.
11As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you.
11Won’t his majesty make you afraid and his dread fall on you?
12Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.
12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
13Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.
13“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
14Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?
14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
15Although he should bill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.
15Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
16And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before his presence.
16This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him.
17Hear ye my speech, and receive with Sour ears hidden truths.
17Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.
18If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.
18See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
19Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?
19Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit.
20Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not be hid:
20“Only don’t do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face:
21Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me.
21withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
22Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me.
22Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.
23How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my crimes and offences.
23How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
24Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?
24Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?
25Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.
25Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
26For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me for the sins of my youth.
26For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
27Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:
27You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
28Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is moth-eaten.
28though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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