THE HOLY BIBLE Authorized King James

Job (Author Job and/or Moses)

13:4But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

13:5O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

13:6Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

13:7Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

13:8Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

13:9Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

13:10He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

13:11Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

13:12Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

13:13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

16:1Then Job answered and said,

16:2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

16:3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

16:4I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

17:2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

19:1Then Job answered and said,

19:2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

19:3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

19:4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

19:5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

30:1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

30:2Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

30:3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

30:4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

30:5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

30:6To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

30:7Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

30:8They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

30:9And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

30:10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.



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