Bible Chapter Summary
Job 13 Summary
Job Defends Himself and Challenges God
Job asserts that he has heard and understood the truth as well as his friends, and demands they cease their words, calling them forgers of lies. He declares his willingness to reason directly with God rather than with them. Job then commits himself to God—vowing that even if God slays him, he will trust—while defending his own ways. He pleads with God to reveal his sins and to remove his hand, asking that God either let him speak or answer his plea.
Key themes
Key verses
Job 13:15
“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.”
Job 13:3
“Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.”
Job 13:24-28
“Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. 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. And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.”
Job 13:18
“Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.”
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