[Sidenote: Job 13:13-18] Hold your peace that I may speak, And let come to me what will. I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand. Behold he will slay me; I have no hope, But I will defend my ways before him. No godless man would come before him. Give careful heed to my speech, And let my declaration be in your ears. Behold now, I have prepared my case, I know that I shall be justified. [Sidenote: Job 13:21-25] Withdraw thy hand far from me; And let not thy terror make me afraid. Then call and I will answer, Or let me speak, and answer thou me. How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin. Why dost thou hide thy face, And regard me as thine enemy? Wilt thou harass a wind blown leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? [Sidenote: 14:7-10] For there is hope of a tree, If it will be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that its shoot will not cease. Though its root grow old in the earth, And its stock die in the ground; By the scent of water it will bud, And put forth its branches like a plant. But man dies and is laid low: Yea, a man expires, and where is he? [Sidenote: Job 14:13-15, 18, 19] Oh, that thou wouldst hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldst keep me in secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldst appoint over me a time, and remember me! If a man might die, shall he live again! All the days of my hard service would I wait, Until my release should come. Thou wouldst call and I myself would answer thee; Thou wouldst long for the work of thy hands. But the mountain surely falls, And the rock moves from its place, The water wears away the stones, Its floods wash away the dust of the earth. [Sidenote: Job 15:4-6] Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite and said: Verily, you do away with the fear of God, And hinder devotion before God. For your wickedness inspires your speech, And you choose the tongue of the crafty. Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; And your own lips testify against you. [Sidenote: Job 16:1-3a, 4b] Then answered Job and said: I have heard many such things; Troublesome comforters are you all. Is there no end to vain words? If you were only in my place, I could join words together against you! [Sidenote: Job 16:11-13a] God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked. I was at ease, and he shattered me, He seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces, He hath also set me up as his target, His arrows encompass me round about. [Sidenote Job 16:18-21] O earth, cover not my blood, And let my cry have no resting place. Even now behold my witness is in the heaven, And he who voucheth for me is on high. He will be found to be my friend, To God my eye pours out its tears. And he will maintain the right of a man with God, And between a man and his neighbor! [Sidenote: Job 18:1, 5-7] Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said: