Chapter 13
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Lo
ear
4:12 5:27 8:8-10 15:17,18 Psalms 78:3,4 1 John 1:3
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
12:3 15:8,9 34:35 35:16 37:2 40:4,5 42:7 1 Corinthians 8:1,2 2 Corinthians 11:4,5,16-18 12:11
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Surely
I desire
9:3,14,15 Isaiah 1:18-20 41:21 Jeremiah 12:1,2 *marg:; Micah 6:2
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
ye are forgers
4:7-11 5:1-5 8:3,4 18:5-21 21:27-34 22:6-30 Exodus 20:16 Psalms 119:69
physicians
6:21 16:2 Jeremiah 6:14 8:22 30:13 46:11 Ezekiel 34:4 Hosea 5:13 Mark 2:17 Mark 5:26
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Oh that ye
13 11:3 16:3 18:2 19:2 21:2,3 32:1
and it
Proverbs 17:28 Ecclesiastes 5:3 Amos 5:13 James 1:19
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
21:2,3 33:1-3 34:2 Judges 9:7 Proverbs 8:6,7
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
4:7 11:2-4 17:5 32:21,22 36:4 John 16:2 Romans 3:5-8 2 Corinthians 4:2
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
32:21 34:19 Exodus 23:2,3 Proverbs 24:23 Malachi 2:9 *marg:
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
search
34:36 Psalms 44:21 139:23 Jeremiah 17:10
as one
17:2 Isaiah 28:22 Galatians 6:7,8
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
reprove
42:7,8 Psalms 50:21,22 82:2 James 2:9
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
Shall
Psalms 119:120 Jeremiah 5:22 10:10 Matthew 10:28 Revelation 15:3,4
his dread
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
remembrances
18:17 Exodus 17:14 Psalms 34:16 102:12 109:15 Proverbs 10:7 Isaiah 26:14
ashes
to bodies
4:19 Genesis 2:7 2 Corinthians 5:1
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Hold your peace
Heb. Be silent from me. let me.
and let come
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
I take
18:4 Ecclesiastes 4:5 Isaiah 9:20 49:26
and put
Judges 12:3 1 Samuel 19:5 28:21 Psalms 119:109
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
he slay me
18 19:25-28 23:10 Psalms 23:4 Proverbs 14:32 Romans 8:38,39
but I will
10:7 16:17,21 23:4-7 27:5 31:31-37 40:2,4,5,8 1 John 3:20
maintain
Heb. prove, or argue.
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
my salvation
Exodus 15:2 Psalms 27:1 62:6,7 118:14,21 Isaiah 12:2 Jeremiah 3:23 Acts 13:47
for an hypocrite
8:13 27:8-10 36:13 Isaiah 33:14
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
I have ordered
I know
9:2,3,20 40:7,8 Isaiah 43:26 Romans 8:33,34 2 Corinthians 1:12
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
that will plead
19:5 33:5-7,32 Isaiah 50:7,8 Romans 8:33
if I hold
Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
do not two
hide myself
Genesis 3:8-10 Psalms 139:12 Revelation 6:15,16
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Withdraw
let not
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
many
make me
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
hidest thou
10:2 29:2,3 Deuteronomy 32:20 Psalms 10:1 13:1 44:24 77:6-9 88:14 Isaiah 8:17
holdest me
16:9 19:11 30:21 31:35 33:10 1 Samuel 28:16 Lamentations 2:5 2 Thessalonians 3:15
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
break
14:3 1 Samuel 24:14 Isaiah 17:13 Matthew 12:20
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
writest
makest
20:11 Psalms 25:7 Proverbs 5:11-13 Jeremiah 31:19 John 5:5,14
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.
puttest
33:11 2 Chronicles 16:10-12 Proverbs 7:22 Acts 16:24
and lookest
Heb. and observest.
settest
heels
Heb. roots.
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.