Part 11

18:012:020 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

18:012:021 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.

18:012:022 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

18:012:023 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

18:012:024 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

18:012:025 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

18:013:001 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

18:013:002 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

18:013:003 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

18:013:004 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

18:013:005 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

18:013:006 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

18:013:007 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

18:013:008 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

18:013:009 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

18:013:010 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

18:013:011 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

18:013:012 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

18:013:013 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

18:013:014 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

18:013:015 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

18:013:016 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

18:013:017 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

18:013:018 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

18:013:019 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

18:013:020 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

18:013:021 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

18:013:022 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.