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Job 13

Clinging to a Counterfeit Cross
Introduction

1  Job reproves his friends for partiality.
14  He professes his confidence in God; and entreats to know his own sins, and God's purpose in afflicting him.
Verse 1

Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Lo
5:9-16, 12:9-25, 42:3-6
ear
4:12, 5:27, 8:8-10, 15:17,18, Psalms 78:3,4, 1 John 1:3
Verse 2

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
Verse 3

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Surely
22, 9:34,35, 11:5, 23:3-7, 31:35
I desire
9:3,14,15, Isaiah 1:18-20, 41:21, Jeremiah 12:1,2; *marg:; Micah 6:2
Verse 4

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
Verse 5

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
Verse 6

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
Verse 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
Verse 8

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:
Verse 9

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
Verse 10

He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
reprove
42:7,8, Psalms 50:21,22, 82:2, James 2:9
Verse 11

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
21, Exodus 15:16, Isaiah 8:13
Verse 12

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
Genesis 18:27
to bodies
4:19, Genesis 2:7, 2 Corinthians 5:1
Verse 13

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.
5, 7:11, 10:1, 21:3
and let come
6:9,10, 7:15,16
Verse 14

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
Verse 15

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.
Verse 16

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
Verse 17

Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
6, 33:1
Verse 18

Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
I have ordered
16:21, 23:4, 40:7
I know
9:2,3,20, 40:7,8, Isaiah 43:26, Romans 8:33,34, 2 Corinthians 1:12
Verse 19

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
13, 7:11, Jeremiah 20:9
Verse 20

Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
do not two
9:34,35
hide myself
Genesis 3:8-10, Psalms 139:12, Revelation 6:15,16
Verse 21

Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Withdraw
10:20, 22:15-17
let not
11, 33:7, Psalms 119:120
Verse 22

Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
9:32, 38:3, 40:4,5, 42:3-6
Verse 23

How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
many
22:5, Psalms 44:20,21
make me
36:8,9, Psalms 139:23
Verse 24

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
Verse 25

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
Verse 26

For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
writest
3:20, Ruth 1:20, Psalms 88:3-18
makest
20:11, Psalms 25:7, Proverbs 5:11-13, Jeremiah 31:19, John 5:5,14
Verse 27

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.
10:6, 14:16, 16:9
settest
2:7
heels
Heb. roots.
Verse 28

And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
And he
30:17-19,29,30, Numbers 12:12
as a garment
4:19, Psalms 39:11, Hosea 5:12

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