{"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/dbt/job/13","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T07:36:15.005Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":13,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":12,"nextChapter":14,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":28},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"What ye know, I know also: I am not inferior to you."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with God;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Hear now my defence, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Will ye speak unrighteously for God? and for him speak deceit?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He will certainly reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Shall not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what will!"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid:"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Then call, and I will answer; or I will speak, and answer thou me."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth;"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; —"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 13 (DBT)","markdown":"[Job 13](https://primebible.com/dbt/job/13)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/job/13 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}