{"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/kjv/job/13","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:54:42.402Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","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 <i>this</i>, mine ear hath heard and understood it."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"What ye know, <i>the same</i> do I know also: I <i>am</i> 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 <i>are</i> forgers of lies, ye <i>are</i> all physicians of no value."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"O 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 wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye <i>so</i> mock him?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Your remembrances <i>are</i> like unto 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 <i>will</i>."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"He also <i>shall be</i> 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 <i>my</i> cause; I know that I shall be justified."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Who <i>is</i> he <i>that</i> will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Only do not two <i>things</i> unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread 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 <i>are</i> 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 break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the 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":"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."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 13 (KJV)","markdown":"[Job 13](https://primebible.com/kjv/job/13)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/job/13 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}