Job 13

Job 13:8

Will ye accept of his person?

Do ye think he hath need of an unjust gratification from you; so as that he would have you give him an undue favour in his cause, out of by-respects?

Job 13:12

Your remembrances are like unto ashes.

Whatsoever thing of yours seems memorable, or what monument soever ye shall set up to yourselves, it shall vanish away, and be scattered like ashes.

Job 13:14

Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

Wherefore do I give way to these desperate extremities, as if I would tear my flesh in pieces with my own teeth? and why do I cast away all the care of my life, as now past all possibility of recovery?

Job 13:15

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

Though God should have determined thus to make an end of me, yet I will not cease to cast myself upon his hands, and confidently to rely upon his mercy; neither will I ever be driven from the defence of my honest sincerity before him.

Job 13:19

For now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

I am so full of this grief, that I cannot hold it in; and if I should not thus give it vent, it would presently kill me.

Job 13:20

Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

And if it shall please God to vouchsafe to argue this case with me, I shall desire but these two conditions of him: and then I will not withdraw myself for fear, from appearing before him.

Job 13:21

Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

One is, that he would take off from me this heavy hand of his present affliction, which overwhelms me with the violence of it; the other, that he would give me courage to bear out this my humble contestation, so as I may not be confounded with the terrors of his Glorious Majesty.

Job 13:23

How many are mine iniquities and sins? make thou me to know my transgressions and my sin.

O God, I cannot accuse myself of wilful wickednesses against thee; but if there be any secret iniquity that I am not privy unto, do thou make it known to me, and convince me of it.

Job 13:25

Will thou break a leaf driven to and fro?

Alas, Lord, am I a fit subject for thee to contend with? Oh consider my weakness, and my unworthiness; and enter not into judgment with my vileness.

Job 13:26

Thou makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

Thou callest me to a back-reckoning for the very sins of my youth; and dost now cause me to feel the smart of them.

Job 13:27

Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly upon all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

Thou shuttest me in, sure and close, with these strong afflictions, so as I cannot stir out of thy hand: thou dost strictly observe all my carriage; and, as if thou hadst set some soft

Job 13:28

And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth.

Alas, Lord, if I look to the condition of man in general, what a poor vain thing he is! for, behold he consumeth away, as a thing that is already rotten.