Verse 14
Job 13:14
Darby Translation
14
Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
Original Language Text
hebrew
עַל מָ֤ה אֶשָּׂ֣א בְשָׂרִ֣/י בְ/שִׁנָּ֑/י וְ֝/נַפְשִׁ֗/י אָשִׂ֥ים בְּ/כַפִּֽ/י
English Translation
On what shall I lift my flesh and place my soul in my hands?
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 13 Context
1
Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it.
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What ye know, I know also: I am not inferior to you.
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3
But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with God (Elohim);
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For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
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Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom.
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Hear now my defence, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
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Will ye speak unrighteously for God (Elohim)? and for him speak deceit?
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Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God (Elohim)?
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Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?
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10
He will certainly reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
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Shall not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?
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12
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
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13
Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what [will]!
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14
Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
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Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him.
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This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face.
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Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears.
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18
Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified.
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Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.
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20
Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee.
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21
Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid:
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22
Then call, and I will answer; or I will speak, and answer thou me.
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23
How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
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24
Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?
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25
Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
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For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth;
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And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the sol...
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One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.
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