Job 13 Lo, all this haue I seene with mine eye, heard with mine eare, and vnderstande it

Bishops⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Lo, all [this] haue I seene with mine eye, heard with mine eare, and vnderstande it ² What ye knowe, that same do I know also, neither am I inferior vnto you ³ Neuerthelesse, I talke with the almightie, and my desire is to commune with God ⁴ As for you, ye are workmaisters of lyes, and vnprofitable phisitians altogether ⁵ Woulde God ye kept your tongue, for then might ye be taken for wise men ⁶ Now heare my reasoning, and ponder the argument of my lippes ⁷ Wyll you speake wickedlie for gods [defence] and talke deceitfully for his [cause? ⁸ Wyll ye accept the person of him? or wyll ye contende for God ⁹ Shall that helpe you when he calleth you to reckening? For as one man mocketh an other, so do ye mocke him ¹⁰ He shall punishe you, and reproue you, if ye do secretly accept any person ¹¹ Shall not his excellencie make you afrayde? Shall not his terrible feare fall vpon you ¹² Your remembraunce is lyke vnto a sparke, and your bodies lyke the claye ¹³ Holde your tongues for my sake, that I also may speake, and my sorowe shalbe the lesse ¹⁴ Wherefore do I beare my fleshe in my teeth, and put my soule in myne handes ¹⁵ Lo, though he slay me, yet wyl I trust in him: but I wyll reproue myne owne wayes in his sight ¹⁶ He shalbe my saluation: for there may no hypocrite come before him ¹⁷ Heare diligently my wordes, and ponder my sayinges with your eares ¹⁸ Beholde, now haue I prepared my iudgement, and knowe that I shalbe founde righteous ¹⁹ What is he that wyll go to lawe with me? if I now holde my tongue I dye ²⁰ Neuerthelesse, graunt me two thinges, and then wyll I not hide my selfe from thee ²¹ Withdrawe thyne hande from me, and let not the fearefull dreade of thee make me afrayde ²² Then call, and I wyll aunswere: or let me speake, and geue me then an aunswere ²³ How many are my misdeedes and sinnes? let me knowe my transgressions and offences ²⁴ Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thyne enemie ²⁵ Wylt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro, and wilt thou pursue the drye stubble ²⁶ For thou layest sharply to my charge, and punishest me for the sinnes of my youth ²⁷ Thou puttest my feete also in the stockes, and lokest narowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in the heeles of my feete ²⁸ And I as a rotten thing do consume away, as a garment that is moth eaten