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The Book of Job, Chapter 13, Verse 9

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Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
King James Version
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him?
American Standard Version
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?
New English Translation
Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him?
World English Bible
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
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He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
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Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
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Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
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Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will].
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Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
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Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
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He also [shall be] my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
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Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
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Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified.
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Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.