Job Reproves His Friends for Partiality, Professes Confidence in God's Purpose
Job
1 Job reproves his friends for partiality, 14 He professes his confidence in God , 19 and entreats to know his own sins and God's purpose in afflicting him
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Pro 17:28;Ecc 5:3;Amo 5:13 5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Pro 24:238 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13 ¶ Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Psa 119:10914 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Job 27:5;Rom 8:38-39;Pro 14:32 15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Isa 12:1-216 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Job 33:6;Isa 50:8 19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
23 ¶ How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
2 The 3:15;Lam 2:5;Isa 8:17 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Isa 17:13;Isa 42:3 25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Psa 25:726 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Job 33:1127 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.