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XIII] :And I desire to reason with God.
 * But ye are forgers of lies,
 * Ye are all physicians of no value.
 * O that ye would altogether hold your peace!
 * And it should be your wisdom.
 * Hear now my reasoning,
 * And hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
 * Will ye speak wickedly for God?
 * And talk deceitfully for him?
 * Will ye accept his person?
 * Will ye contend for God?
 * Is it good that he should search you out?
 * Or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
 * He will surely reprove you,
 * If ye do secretly accept persons.
 * Shall not his excellency make you afraid?
 * And his dread fall upon you?
 * Your remembrances are like unto ashes,
 * Your bodies to bodies of clay.
 * Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak,
 * And let come on me what will.
 * Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth,
 * And put my life in mine hand?
 * Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:
 * But I will maintain mine own ways before him.
 * He also shall be my salvation:
 * For an hypocrite shall not come before him.