{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/job/13","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T11:35:14.521Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":13,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":12,"nextChapter":14,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":28},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"See, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"What you know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior to you."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"But you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"O that you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Will you accept his person? will you contend for God?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He will surely reprove you, if you do secretly accept persons."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall on you?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Only do not two things to me: then will I not hide myself from you."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Then call you, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer you me."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"How many are my iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? and will you pursue the dry stubble?"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"For you write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the iniquities of my youth."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And he, as a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth eaten."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 13 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Job 13](https://primebible.com/akjv/job/13)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/job/13 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}