Verse 18
Job 13:18
New King James Version
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Behold now, I have ordered
my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הִנֵּה נָ֭א עָרַ֣כְתִּי מִשְׁפָּ֑ט יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּי כִּֽי אֲנִ֥י אֶצְדָּֽק
English Translation
Behold, I have arranged a judgment; I know that I will be justified.
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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2
What ye know,
the same do I know also: I
am not inferior unto you.
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3
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God (Elohim).
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4
But ye
are forgers of lies, ye
are all physicians of no value.
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5
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
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6
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
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7
Will ye speak wickedly for God (Elohim)? and talk deceitfully for him?
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8
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God (Elohim)?
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9
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye
so mock him?
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10
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
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11
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
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12
Your remembrances
are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
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13
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what
will.
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14
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
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15
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
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16
He also
shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
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17
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
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18
Behold now, I have ordered
my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19
Who
is he
that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
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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 thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
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22
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me 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 hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
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25
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
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26
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
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27
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a prin...
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28
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
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