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