Job 13
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Job speaks sharp words to his friends
Verse 1
WEB “Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
KJV Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
TSK Lo: job 5:9-16, job 12:9-25, job 42:3-6; ear: job 4:12, job 5:27, job 8:8-10, job 15:17,18, ps 78:3,4, 1jo 1:3
Verse 2
WEB What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
KJV What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
TSK What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.: job 12:3, job 15:8,9, job 34:35, job 35:16, job 37:2, job 40:4,5, job 42:7, 1co 8:1,2, 2co 11:4,5,16-18, 2co 12:11
Verse 3
WEB “Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
KJV Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
TSK Surely: job 13:22, job 9:34,35, job 11:5, job 23:3-7, job 31:35; I desire: job 9:3,14,15, isa 1:18-20, isa 41:21, jer 12:1,2, mic 6:2
Verse 4
WEB But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
KJV But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
TSK ye are forgers: job 4:7-11, job 5:1-5, job 8:3,4, job 18:5-21, job 21:27-34, job 22:6-30, ex 20:16, ps 119:69; physicians: job 6:21, job 16:2, jer 6:14, jer 8:22, jer 30:13, jer 46:11, eze 34:4, ho 5:13, mr 2:17, mr 5:26
Verse 6
WEB Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
KJV Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
TSK Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.: job 21:2,3, job 33:1-3, job 34:2, jud 9:7, pr 8:6,7
Verse 7
WEB Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
KJV Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
TSK Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?: job 4:7, job 11:2-4, job 17:5, job 32:21,22, job 36:4, joh 16:2, ro 3:5-8, 2co 4:2
Verse 10
WEB He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.
KJV He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
TSK reprove: job 42:7,8, ps 50:21,22, ps 82:2, jas 2:9
Verse 12
WEB Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
KJV Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
TSK remembrances: job 18:17, ex 17:14, ps 34:16, ps 102:12, ps 109:15, pr 10:7, isa 26:14; ashes: ge 18:27; to bodies: job 4:19, ge 2:7, 2co 5:1
He makes open statement of his confidence in God
Verse 13
WEB “Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
KJV Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
TSK let me: job 13:5, job 7:11, job 10:1, job 21:3; and let come: job 6:9,10, job 7:15,16
Verse 15
WEB Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
KJV Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
TSK he slay me: job 13:18, job 19:25-28, job 23:10, ps 23:4, pr 14:32, ro 8:38,39; but I will: job 10:7, job 16:17,21, job 23:4-7, job 27:5, job 31:31-37, job 40:2,4,5,8, 1jo 3:20
Verse 16
WEB This also shall be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.
KJV He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
TSK my salvation: ex 15:2, ps 27:1, ps 62:6,7, ps 118:14,21, isa 12:2, jer 3:23, ac 13:47; for an hypocrite: job 8:13, job 27:8-10, job 36:13, isa 33:14
Verse 18
WEB See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
KJV Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
TSK I have ordered: job 16:21, job 23:4, job 40:7; I know: job 9:2,3,20, job 40:7,8, isa 43:26, ro 8:33,34, 2co 1:12
Verse 19
WEB Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
KJV Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
TSK that will plead: job 19:5, job 33:5-7,32, isa 50:7,8, ro 8:33; if I hold: job 13:13, job 7:11, jer 20:9
Verse 20
WEB “Only don’t do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face:
KJV Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
TSK do not two: job 9:34,35; hide myself: ge 3:8-10, ps 139:12, re 6:15,16
Verse 21
WEB withdraw your hand far from me; and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
KJV Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
TSK Withdraw: job 10:20, job 22:15-17; let not: job 13:11, job 33:7, ps 119:120
Verse 22
WEB Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me.
KJV Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
TSK Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.: job 9:32, job 38:3, job 40:4,5, job 42:3-6
Job entreats to know his sins
Verse 23
WEB How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
KJV How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
TSK many: job 22:5, ps 44:20,21; make me: job 36:8,9, ps 139:23
Verse 24
WEB Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
KJV Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
TSK hidest thou: job 10:2, job 29:2,3, de 32:20, ps 10:1, ps 13:1, ps 44:24, ps 77:6-9, ps 88:14, isa 8:17; holdest me: job 16:9, job 19:11, job 30:21, job 31:35, job 33:10, 1sa 28:16, la 2:5, 2th 3:15
Verse 26
WEB For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
KJV For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
TSK writest: job 3:20, ru 1:20, ps 88:3-18; makest: job 20:11, ps 25:7, pr 5:11-13, jer 31:19, joh 5:5,14
Verse 27
WEB You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
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.
TSK puttest: job 33:11, 2ch 16:10-12, pr 7:22, ac 16:24; and lookest: job 10:6, job 14:16, job 16:9; settest: job 2:7
Verse 28
WEB though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
KJV And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
TSK And he: job 30:17-19,29,30, nu 12:12; as a garment: job 4:19, ps 39:11, ho 5:12