{"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/web/job/13","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:40:42.810Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":13,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":12,"nextChapter":14,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":28},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"|Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"|Surely I would speak to the Almighty. 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":"Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"|Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"This also shall be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"|Only don't do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face:"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"withdraw your hand far from me; and don't let your terror make me afraid."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 13 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 13](https://primebible.com/web/job/13)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/13 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}