Job 13

“Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.” The line’s distinctive content terms include seen, understood. Its relationship to verses 2 shows what work it does in this passage.

“What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.” The line’s distinctive content terms include know, inferior. Its relationship to verses 1 and 3 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.” Naming Almighty keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.” The line’s distinctive content terms include forgers, lies, physicians. Its relationship to verses 3 and 5 shows what work it does in this passage.

“O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.” The line’s distinctive content terms include altogether, hold, peace. Its relationship to verses 4 and 6 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.” Naming Hear keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.” The line’s distinctive content terms include accept, persons, reprove. Its relationship to verses 9 and 11 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.” Naming Your keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.” Naming Hold keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.” Naming Though keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.” Naming Hear keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.” The number two makes the report concrete. Ask whether it measures time, people, distance, repetition, or completeness before deciding what weight it carries.

“Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.” Naming Withdraw keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.” The line’s distinctive content terms include answer, call. Its relationship to verses 23 shows what work it does in this passage.

“How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels…” Naming Thou keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.” The line’s distinctive content terms include consumeth, eaten, garment. Its relationship to verses 27 shows what work it does in this passage.