{"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/erv/job/13","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T22:27:33.796Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","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, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Will ye respect his person? will ye contend for God?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Is it good that he should search you out? or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly respect persons."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Shall not his excellency make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your defences are defences of clay."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what wilt."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Though he slay me, yet will I wait for him: nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"This also shall be my salvation; for a godless man shall not come before him."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I am righteous."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Who is he that will contend with me? for now shall I hold my peace and give up the ghost."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Only do not two things unto me, then will I not hide myself from thy face:"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Withdraw thine hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Then call thou, and I will answer; or let me 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 hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth:"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou drawest thee a line about the soles of my feet:"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 13 (ERV)","markdown":"[Job 13](https://primebible.com/erv/job/13)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/job/13 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}