Job 13:1 Explained in Context

Verse 1. ¹ Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

Verse 2. ² What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

Verse 3. ³ Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

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

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

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

Verse 7. ⁷ Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

Verse 8. ⁸ Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

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

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

Verse 11. ¹¹ Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

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