Job 13章 ESV | 微讀聖經

Job Continues: Still I Will Hope in God

1“Behold, my eye has seen all this,

my ear has heard and understood it.

213:2 [ch. 12:3; 15:9]What you know, I also know;

I am not inferior to you.

313:3 ch. 23:4; 31:35But I would speak to the Almighty,

and I desire to 13:3 [ver. 15, 18]argue my case with God.

4As for you, 13:4 Ps. 119:69you whitewash with lies;

13:4 [ch. 16:2]worthless physicians are you all.

5Oh that you would 13:5 Prov. 17:28keep silent,

and it would be your wisdom!

6Hear now my argument

and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

7Will you 13:7 ch. 27:4speak falsely for God

and speak 13:7 ch. 27:4deceitfully for him?

8Will you show partiality toward him?

Will you 13:8 [Judg. 6:31]plead the case for God?

9Will it be well with you when he 13:9 Prov. 28:11searches you out?

Or 13:9 Gal. 6:7can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?

10He will surely rebuke you

if in secret you show partiality.

11Will not his 13:11 ch. 31:23majesty terrify you,

and the dread of him fall upon you?

12Your maxims are proverbs of 13:12 Isa. 44:20ashes;

your defenses are defenses of clay.

13“Let me have silence, and I will speak,

and let come on me what may.

14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth

and 13:14 See Judg. 12:3put my life in my hand?

1513:15 [Prov. 14:32] Though he slay me, I will 13:15 ch. 14:14hope in him;13:15 Or Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope

yet I will 13:15 [ver. 3; ch. 27:5]argue my ways to his face.

16This will be my salvation,

that the godless shall not come before him.

1713:17 ch. 21:2Keep listening to my words,

and let my declaration be in your ears.

18Behold, I have 13:18 See ch. 33:5prepared my case;

I know that I shall be in the right.

1913:19 Isa. 50:8, 9Who is there who will contend with me?

For then I would be silent and die.

20Only grant me two things,

then I will not 13:20 [Gen. 3:8]hide myself from your face:

2113:21 ch. 9:34; Ps. 39:10withdraw your hand far from me,

and let not 13:21 ch. 9:34; 33:7dread of you terrify me.

2213:22 ch. 14:15Then call, and I will answer;

or let me speak, and you reply to me.

23How many are my iniquities and my sins?

13:23 [Ps. 19:12]Make me know my transgression and my sin.

24Why 13:24 Deut. 32:20do you hide your face

and 13:24 ch. 19:11; 33:10; [Lam. 2:5]count me as your enemy?

25Will you frighten 13:25 Lev. 26:36a driven leaf

and pursue dry 13:25 ch. 21:18; Ps. 83:13chaff?

26For you 13:26 [Ps. 149:9] write bitter things against me

and make me inherit 13:26 Ps. 25:7the iniquities of my youth.

27You put my feet in 13:27 [ch. 33:11] the stocks

and 13:27 See ch. 10:14watch all my paths;

you set a limit for13:27 Or you marked the soles of my feet.

28Man13:28 Hebrew He wastes away like 13:28 Prov. 12:4; 14:30; Hab. 3:16a rotten thing,

like a garment that is 13:28 ch. 4:19moth-eaten.

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