Job 13:4-13

Living Bible

⁴ For you are misinterpreting the whole thing. You are doctors who don’t know what they are doing. ⁵ Oh, please be quiet! That would be your highest wisdom.

⁶ “Listen to me now, to my reasons for what I think and to my pleadings.

⁷ “Must you go on ‘speaking for God’ when he never once has said the things that you are putting in his mouth? ⁸ Does God want your help if you are going to twist the truth for him? ⁹ Be careful that he doesn’t find out what you are doing! Or do you think you can fool God as well as men? ¹⁰ No, you will be in serious trouble with him if you use lies to try to help him out. ¹¹ Doesn’t his majesty strike terror to your heart? How can you do this thing? ¹² These tremendous statements you have made have about as much value as ashes. Your defense of God is as fragile as a clay vase!

¹³ “Be silent now and leave me alone, that I may speak—and I am willing to face the consequences.