Verse 22
Job 13:22
Young's Literal Translation
22
And call Thou, and I -- I answer, Or -- I speak, and answer Thou me.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וּ֭/קְרָא וְ/אָנֹכִ֣י אֶֽעֱנֶ֑ה אֽוֹ אֲ֝דַבֵּ֗ר וַ/הֲשִׁיבֵֽ/נִי
English Translation
And call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you will respond to me.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 13 Context
1
Lo, all -- hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.
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According to your knowledge I have known -- also I. I am not fallen more than you.
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3
Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God (Elohim) I delight.
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And yet, ye [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you,
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O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
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Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,
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7
For God (Elohim) do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?
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His face do ye accept, if for God (Elohim) ye strive?
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9
Is [it] good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?
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10
He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.
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11
Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?
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12
Your remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
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13
Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?
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14
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?
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15
Lo, He doth slay me -- I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.
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16
Also -- He [is] to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.
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17
Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears.
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18
Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.
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19
Who [is] he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
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20
Only two things, O God (Elohim), do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden.
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21
Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.
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22
And call Thou, and I -- I answer, Or -- I speak, and answer Thou me.
23
How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.
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24
Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?
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25
A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?
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26
For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:
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27
And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest...
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28
And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
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