Job 13
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 13, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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Lo, mine eye hath seen all {this}, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Job 13:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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What ye know, {the same} do I know also: I {am} not inferior unto you.
Job 13:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Job 13:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But ye {are} forgers of lies, ye {are} all physicians of no value.
Job 13:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Job 13:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Job 13:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
Job 13:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Job 13:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye {so} mock him?
Job 13:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Job 13:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
Job 13:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Your remembrances {are} like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Job 13:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what {will}. {Hold...: Heb. Be silent from me}
Job 13:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Job 13:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. {maintain: Heb. prove, or, argue}
Job 13:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He also {shall be} my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
Job 13:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
Job 13:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold now, I have ordered {my} cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Job 13:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who {is} he {that} will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
Job 13:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Only do not two {things} unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
Job 13:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Job 13:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Job 13:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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How many {are} mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Job 13:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Job 13:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Job 13:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Job 13:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {lookest...: Heb. observest} {heels: Heb. roots}
Job 13:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Job 13:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.