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Job 13 (CEV)

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¹ I know and understand every bit of this. ² None of you are smarter than I am; there's nothing you know that I don't. ³ But I prefer to argue my case with God All-Powerful-- ⁴ you are merely useless doctors, who treat me with lies. ⁵ The wisest thing you can do is to keep quiet ⁶ and listen to my argument. ⁷ Are you telling lies for God ⁸ and not telling the whole truth when you argue his case? ⁹ If he took you to court, could you fool him, just as you fool others? ¹⁰ If you were secretly unfair, he would correct you, ¹¹ and his glorious splendor would make you terrified. ¹² Your wisdom and arguments are as delicate as dust. ¹³ Be quiet while I speak, then say what you will. ¹⁴ I will be responsible for what happens to me. ¹⁵ God may kill me, but still I will trust him and offer my defense. ¹⁶ This may be what saves me, because no guilty person would come to his court. ¹⁷ Listen carefully to my words! ¹⁸ I have prepared my case well, and I am certain to win. ¹⁹ If you can prove me guilty, I will give up and die. ²⁰ I ask only two things of you, my God, and I will no longer hide from you-- ²¹ stop punishing and terrifying me! ²² Then speak, and I will reply; or else let me speak, and you reply. ²³ Please point out my sins, so I will know them. ²⁴ Why have you turned your back and count me your enemy? ²⁵ Do you really enjoy frightening a fallen leaf? ²⁶ Why do you accuse me of horrible crimes and make me pay for sins I did in my youth? ²⁷ You have tied my feet down and keep me surrounded; ²⁸ I am rotting away like cloth eaten by worms.