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Job Chapter 13

Job reprimands the partiality of his friends


13:1 Y‘all see, my eye has noticed all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
13:2 What ya’ll know, I know
the same [things]: I am not inferior to you.
13:3 Surely I would speak to Shaddaiשַׁדַּי
romanized: Šaddāy; or Shaddai is one of the names of the God of Israel. El Shaddai is conventionally translated into English as God Almighty (Deus Omnipotens in Latin, Arabic: الله عزوجل, romanized: ʾAllāh ʿazzawajal), but its original meaning is unclear.One of God’s names Shaddai = Exhaustless Bountyclick here
, and I desire to argue with EL אֵל
‎Transliteration:ēl Pronunciation:ale masculine noun God, god-like one, mighty one occurs 245 times in 235 verses in the WLC Hebrew click here
.
13:4 But ya’ll are associated with lies, ya’ll are all worthless healers.
13:5 O that ya’ll would just shut up! and that would be your wisdom.
13:6 Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the arguments of my lips.
13:7 Will ya’ll speak unrighteously for EL אֵל
‎Transliteration: ēl Pronunciation: ale – masculine noun -God, god-like one, mighty one occurs 245 times in 235 verses in the WLC Hebrew click here
? and talk deceitfully for him?
13:8 Will ya’ll lift up His face? or will ya’ll grapple with EL אֵל
‎Transliteration:ēl Pronunciation:ale masculine noun God, god-like one, mighty one occurs 245 times in 235 verses in the WLC Hebrew click here
?
13:9 Is it good that He should search you out? Or as one man mocks another, do ya’ll mock Him?
13:10 He will surely reprimand you, if ya’ll secretly lift up faces.
13:11 Shall not His highness make you afraid? and His dread fall on you?
13:12 Your remembered sayings [are] like ashes, your bodies [are] bodies of clay.
13:13 Shut up [and] let me alone, that I may speak, and let what [will] come on me.

Job’s confidence in God


13:14 Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
13:15 Though he kill me, will not wait, but I will justify my own ways before Him.
13:16 He also shall [is] my salvation: for an ungodly one shall not come before Him.
13:17 Listen carefully to my words, and let what I say be in your ears.
13:18 See now, I have set
my cause in order ; I know that I shall be justified.
13:19 Who is he that will struggle with me? for now, I hold my tongue, and die.
13:20 Only don’t two things to me: then will I not hide myself from Your face.
13:21 Withdraw Your hand far from me: and don’t let Your terror make me afraid.
13:22 Then call, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer you me.
13:23 How many [are] my wickedness and sins? Make me to know my transgressions and my sin.
13:24 Why do You
hide Your face, and count me for Your enemy?
13:25 Will You terrify a leaf driven to and fro? and will You pursue the dry stubble?
13:26 For You write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the sins of my youth.
13:27 You
also put my feet in the stocks, and watch all my paths; you set a limit on the soles of my feet.
13:28 And he wears out like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth eaten

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