# Job 13 ## Job 13:1 - [KJV] Lo, mine eye hath seen all *this*, mine ear hath heard and understood it. - [ASV] Lo, mine eye hath seen all *this*, Mine ear hath heard and understood it. - [YLT] Lo, all -- hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it. ### Notes on Job 13:1 - ## Job 13:2 - [KJV] What ye know, *the same* do I know also: I *am* not inferior unto you. - [ASV] What ye know, *the same* do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. - [YLT] According to your knowledge I have known -- also I. I am not fallen more than you. ### Notes on Job 13:2 - ## Job 13:3 - [KJV] Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. - [ASV] Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God. - [YLT] Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight. ### Notes on Job 13:3 - ## Job 13:4 - [KJV] But ye *are* forgers of lies, ye *are* all physicians of no value. - [ASV] But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value. - [YLT] And yet, ye *are* forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you, ### Notes on Job 13:4 - ## Job 13:5 - [KJV] O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. - [ASV] Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom. - [YLT] O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom. ### Notes on Job 13:5 - ## Job 13:6 - [KJV] Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. - [ASV] Hear now my reasoning, And hearken to the pleadings of my lips. - [YLT] Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend, ### Notes on Job 13:6 - ## Job 13:7 - [KJV] Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? - [ASV] Will ye speak unrighteously for God, And talk deceitfully for him? - [YLT] For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit? ### Notes on Job 13:7 - ## Job 13:8 - [KJV] Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? - [ASV] Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God? - [YLT] His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive? ### Notes on Job 13:8 - ## Job 13:9 - [KJV] Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye *so* mock him? - [ASV] Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him? - [YLT] Is *it* good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him? ### Notes on Job 13:9 - ## Job 13:10 - [KJV] He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. - [ASV] He will surely reprove you, If ye do secretly show partiality. - [YLT] He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces. ### Notes on Job 13:10 - ## Job 13:11 - [KJV] Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? - [ASV] Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall upon you? - [YLT] Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you? ### Notes on Job 13:11 - ## Job 13:12 - [KJV] Your remembrances *are* like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. - [ASV] Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay. - [YLT] Your remembrances *are* similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights. ### Notes on Job 13:12 - ## Job 13:13 - [KJV] Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what *will*. - [ASV] Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will. - [YLT] Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what? ### Notes on Job 13:13 - ## Job 13:14 - [KJV] Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? - [ASV] Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand? - [YLT] Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand? ### Notes on Job 13:14 - ## Job 13:15 - [KJV] Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. - [ASV] Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him. - [YLT] Lo, He doth slay me -- I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue. ### Notes on Job 13:15 - ## Job 13:16 - [KJV] He also *shall be* my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. - [ASV] This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him. - [YLT] Also -- He *is* to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him. ### Notes on Job 13:16 - ## Job 13:17 - [KJV] Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. - [ASV] Hear diligently my speech, And let my declaration be in your ears. - [YLT] Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears. ### Notes on Job 13:17 - ## Job 13:18 - [KJV] Behold now, I have ordered *my* cause; I know that I shall be justified. - [ASV] Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I am righteous. - [YLT] Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous. ### Notes on Job 13:18 - ## Job 13:19 - [KJV] Who *is* he *that* will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. - [ASV] Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost. - [YLT] Who *is* he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp. ### Notes on Job 13:19 - ## Job 13:20 - [KJV] Only do not two *things* unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. - [ASV] Only do not two things unto me; Then will I not hide myself from thy face: - [YLT] Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden. ### Notes on Job 13:20 - ## Job 13:21 - [KJV] Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. - [ASV] Withdraw thy hand far from me; And let not thy terror make me afraid. - [YLT] Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me. ### Notes on Job 13:21 - ## Job 13:22 - [KJV] Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. - [ASV] Then call thou, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and answer thou me. - [YLT] And call Thou, and I -- I answer, Or -- I speak, and answer Thou me. ### Notes on Job 13:22 - ## Job 13:23 - [KJV] How many *are* mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. - [ASV] How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin. - [YLT] How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know. ### Notes on Job 13:23 - ## Job 13:24 - [KJV] Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? - [ASV] Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy? - [YLT] Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee? ### Notes on Job 13:24 - ## Job 13:25 - [KJV] Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? - [ASV] Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? - [YLT] A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue? ### Notes on Job 13:25 - ## Job 13:26 - [KJV] For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. - [ASV] For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth: - [YLT] For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth: ### Notes on Job 13:26 - ## Job 13:27 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And markest all my paths; Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet: - [YLT] And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print, ### Notes on Job 13:27 - ## Job 13:28 - [KJV] And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. - [ASV] Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten. - [YLT] And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him. ### Notes on Job 13:28 -