13:1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it.
13:1 "Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and understood it.

13:2 What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior unto you.
13:2 What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
13:3 But I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.

13:4 But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value.
13:4 But you forgers of lies, You are all worthless physicians.

13:5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
13:5 Oh, that you would be silent, And it would be your wisdom!

13:6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
13:6 Now hear my reasoning, And heed the pleadings of my lips.

13:7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
13:7 Will you speak wickedly for God, And talk deceitfully for Him?

13:8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
13:8 Will you show partiality for Him? Will you contend for God?

13:9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him?
13:9 Will it be well when He searches you out? Or can you mock Him as one mocks a man?

13:10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
13:10 He will surely rebuke you If you secretly show partiality.

13:11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
13:11 Will not His excellence make you afraid, And the dread of Him fall upon you?

13:12 Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13:12 Your platitudes are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

13:13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will].
13:13 "Hold your peace with me, and let me speak, Then let come on me what may!

13:14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
13:14 Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hands?

13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
13:15 Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him.

13:16 He also [shall be] my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
13:16 He also shall be my salvation, For a hypocrite could not come before Him.

13:17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
13:17 Listen carefully to my speech, And to my declaration with your ears.

13:18 Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified.
13:18 See now, I have prepared my case, I know that I shall be vindicated.

13:19 Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
13:19 Who is he who will contend with me? If now I hold my tongue, I perish.

13:20 Only do not two [things] unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
13:20 "Only two things do not do to me, Then I will not hide myself from You:

13:21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
13:21 Withdraw Your hand far from me, And let not the dread of You make me afraid.

13:22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
13:22 Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, then You respond to me.

13:23 How many [are] mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
13:23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.

13:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
13:24 Why do You hide Your face, And regard me as Your enemy?

13:25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
13:25 Will You frighten a leaf driven to and fro? And will You pursue dry stubble?

13:26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
13:26 For You write bitter things against me, And make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

13:27 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.
13:27 You put my feet in the stocks, And watch closely all my paths. You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
13:28 "Man decays like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.