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Job
Explores the themes of suffering and faith through the story of Job, a man tested by losing everything.
Chapter 13
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1
KJV:
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Geneva:
Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it.
2
KJV:
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
Geneva:
I knowe also as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto you.
3
KJV:
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Geneva:
But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.
4
KJV:
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Geneva:
For in deede ye forge lyes, and all you are physitions of no value.
5
KJV:
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Geneva:
Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!
6
KJV:
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Geneva:
Nowe heare my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments of my lips.
7
KJV:
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
Geneva:
Will ye speake wickedly for Gods defence, and talke deceitfully for his cause?
8
KJV:
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Geneva:
Will ye accept his person? or will ye contende for God?
9
KJV:
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
Geneva:
Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?
10
KJV:
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Geneva:
He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly accept any person.
11
KJV:
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
Geneva:
Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?
12
KJV:
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Geneva:
Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.
13
KJV:
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Geneva:
Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.
14
KJV:
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Geneva:
Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soule in mine hande?
15
KJV:
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Geneva:
Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.
16
KJV:
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
Geneva:
He shalbe my saluation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him.
17
KJV:
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
Geneva:
Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke.
18
KJV:
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Geneva:
Beholde nowe: if I prepare me to iudgement, I knowe that I shalbe iustified.
19
KJV:
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
Geneva:
Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.
20
KJV:
Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
Geneva:
But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.
21
KJV:
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Geneva:
Withdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide.
22
KJV:
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Geneva:
Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.
23
KJV:
How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Geneva:
Howe many are mine iniquities & sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne.
24
KJV:
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Geneva:
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?
25
KJV:
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Geneva:
Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?
26
KJV:
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Geneva:
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth.
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.
Geneva:
Thou puttest my feete also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in ye heeles of my feet.
28
KJV:
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Geneva:
Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.
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