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Job Pleads His Cause to God[a]

13 “Indeed, my eyes have seen all this,[b]
my ears have heard and understood it.
What you know,[c] I[d] know also;
I am not inferior[e] to you!

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Footnotes

  1. Job 13:1 sn Chapter 13 records Job’s charges against his friends for the way they used their knowledge (1-5), his warning that God would find out their insincerity (6-12), and his pleading of his case to God in which he begs for God to remove his hand from him and that he would not terrify him with his majesty and that he would reveal the sins that caused such great suffering (13-28).
  2. Job 13:1 tn Hebrew has כֹּל (kol, “all”); there is no reason to add anything to the text to gain a meaning “all this.”
  3. Job 13:2 tn Heb “Like your knowledge”; in other words Job is saying that his knowledge is like their knowledge.
  4. Job 13:2 tn The pronoun makes the subject emphatic and stresses the contrast: “I know—I also.”
  5. Job 13:2 tn The verb “fall” is used here as it was in Job 4:13 to express becoming lower than someone, i.e., inferior.