Job 13:13–28

¹³Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak;

And let come on me what will.

¹⁴Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth,

And put my life in my hand?

¹⁵Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope:

Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

¹⁶This also shall be my salvation,

That a godless man shall not come before him.

¹⁷Hear diligently my speech,

And let my declaration be in your ears.

¹⁸Behold now, I have set my cause in order;

I know that I am righteous.

¹⁹Who is he that will contend with me?

For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.

²⁰Only do not two things unto me;

Then will I not hide myself from thy face:

²¹Withdraw thy hand far from me;

And let not thy terror make me afraid.

²²Then call thou, and I will answer;

Or let me speak, and answer thou me.

²³How many are mine iniquities and sins?

Make me to know my transgression and my sin.

²⁴Wherefore hidest thou thy face,

And holdest me for thine enemy?

²⁵Wilt thou harass a driven leaf?

And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

²⁶For thou writest bitter things against me,

And makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth:

²⁷Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks,

And markest all my paths;

Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet:

²⁸Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth,

Like a garment that is moth-eaten.