Job Prepares His Case 1 AKJV See, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it. BSB BSB: “Indeed, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood.
2 AKJV What you know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior to you. BSB BSB: What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
3 AKJV Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. BSB BSB: Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.
4 AKJV But you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value. BSB BSB: You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
5 AKJV O that you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. BSB BSB: If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!
6 AKJV Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips. BSB BSB: Hear now my argument, and listen to the plea of my lips.
7 AKJV Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? BSB BSB: Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf or speak deceitfully for Him?
8 AKJV Will you accept his person? will you contend for God? BSB BSB: Would you show Him partiality or argue in His defense?
9 AKJV Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him? BSB BSB: Would it be well when He examined you? Could you deceive Him as you would deceive a man?
10 AKJV He will surely reprove you, if you do secretly accept persons. BSB BSB: Surely He would rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.
11 AKJV Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall on you? BSB BSB: Would His majesty not terrify you? Would the dread of Him not fall upon you?
12 AKJV Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. BSB BSB: Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
13 AKJV Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. BSB BSB: Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.
14 AKJV Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand? BSB BSB: Why do I put myself at risk and take my life in my own hands?
15 AKJV Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him. BSB BSB: Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
16 AKJV He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. BSB BSB: Moreover, this will be my salvation, for no godless man can appear before Him.
17 AKJV Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. BSB BSB: Listen carefully to my words; let my declaration ring in your ears.
18 AKJV Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. BSB BSB: See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I will be vindicated.
19 AKJV Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. BSB BSB: Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.
20 AKJV Only do not two things to me: then will I not hide myself from you. BSB BSB: Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You:
21 AKJV Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid. BSB BSB: Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.
22 AKJV Then call you, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer you me. BSB BSB: Then call me, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You can reply.
23 AKJV How many are my iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. BSB BSB: How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.
24 AKJV Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy? BSB BSB: Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
25 AKJV Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? and will you pursue the dry stubble? BSB BSB: Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
26 AKJV For you write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the iniquities of my youth. BSB BSB: For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.
27 AKJV You put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly to all my paths; you set a print on the heels of my feet. BSB BSB: You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
28 AKJV And he, as a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth eaten. BSB BSB: So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
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