Job 13

As a blogger with discernment tendencies I let this first part of the text speak for itself.

But there are also profound thoughts expressed in the chapter, I've underlined some of these.

Job 13

King James Version (KJV)

13:1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

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.

28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

Verse 27 can be interpreted of God watching closely our every step.

Gill.....or else the sense is, that he followed him closely by the heels, that whenever he took a step, it was immediately marked, and observed by the Lord, as if he trod in his steps, and set his own foot in the mark that was left.

As perhaps...

Joh 1:47    Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

Joh 1:48    Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him,Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.

Joh 1:49    Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.

Joh 1:50    Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these.

Joh 1:51    And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

Or reminds me of Psalm 139

Psa 139:1    To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and knownme.

Psa 139:2    Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

Psa 139:3    Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

Psa 139:4    For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

Psa 139:5    Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

Psa 139:6    Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

Psa 139:7    Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

Psa 139:8    If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

Psa 139:9    If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

Psa 139:10    Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

Psa 139:11    If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

Psa 139:12    Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

Psa 139:13    For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

Psa 139:14    I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Psa 139:15    My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Psa 139:16    Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my memberswere written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Psa 139:17    How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

Psa 139:18    If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

Psa 139:19    Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

Psa 139:20    For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.

Psa 139:21    Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

Psa 139:22    I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

Psa 139:23    Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

Psa 139:24    And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.