Job 13

Job · Chapter 13

Job 13:8

1Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.2What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.4But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.5O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.6Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.7Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?8Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?9Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?10He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.11Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?12Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.16He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.17Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.18Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.19Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.20Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.21Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.22Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.23How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?25Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
8Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?Would you show Him partiality or argue in His defense?Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God?

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
¿ face hisהֲפָנָ֥יוha-fa-NAVH6440N
face: before

פָּנֶה (pa.neh) : before/to/front 1) face 1a) face, faces 1b) presence, person 1c) face (of seraphim or cherubim) 1d) face (of animals) 1e) face, surface (of ground) 1f) as adv of loc/temp 1f1) before and behind, toward, in front of, forward, formerly, from beforetime, before 1g) with prep 1g1) in front of, before, to the front of, in the presence of, in the face of, at the face or front of, from the presence of, from before, from before the face of

will you lift up !תִּשָּׂא֑וּןti-sa-'UNH5375Q
to lift: raise

נָשָׂא (na.sa) : raise/take_up 1) to lift, bear up, carry, take 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to lift, lift up 1a2) to bear, carry, support, sustain, endure 1a3) to take, take away, carry off, forgive 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be lifted up, be exalted 1b2) to lift oneself up, rise up 1b3) to be borne, be carried 1b4) to be taken away, be carried off, be swept away 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to lift up, exalt, support, aid, assist 1c2) to desire, long (fig.) 1c3) to carry, bear continuously 1c4) to take, take away 1d) (Hithpael) to lift oneself up, exalt oneself 1e) (Hiphil) 1e1) to cause one to bear (iniquity) …

or?אִם־'im-H0518HNo entry
for the Godלָאֵ֥לla-'ELH0410G
God

אֵל (el) This name means god, god-like one, mighty one, strength, power Another name of ye.ho.vah (יהוה "LORD" H3068G)

will you argue a case !תְּרִיבֽוּן׃te-ri-VUNH7378
to contend

רִיב (riv) 1) to strive, contend 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to strive 1a1a) physically 1a1b) with words 1a2) to conduct a case or suit (legal), sue 1a3) to make complaint 1a4) to quarrel 1b) (Hiphil) to contend against

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.