Job 13:13–28

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

And let ^tcome on me ^uwhat will.

¹⁴Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth,

And ^xput my life in mine hand?

^15yThough he slay me, yet will I ^ztrust in him:

But I will maintain mine own ways ^abefore him.

¹⁶He also shall be my salvation:

For a hypocrite shall not come before him.

^17aaHear diligently my speech,

And my ^bdeclaration with your ears.

¹⁸Behold now, I have ^cordered my cause;

I know that I shall be justified.

^19dWho is he that will plead with me?

For now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

²⁰Only do not two things unto me:

Then ^ewill I not hide myself from thee.

^21fWithdraw thine hand far from me:

And ^flet not thy dread make me afraid.

^22gThen call thou, and I will answer:

Or let me speak, and ^hanswer thou me.

²³How many are mine iniquities and sins?

Make ⁱme to know my transgression and my sin.

^24jWherefore hidest thou thy face,

And ^kholdest me for thine enemy?

²⁵Wilt thou break ^la leaf driven to and fro?

And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

²⁶For thou ^mwritest bitter things against me,

And makest me to possess ⁿthe iniquities of my youth.

^27oThou puttest my feet also in the stocks,

And lookest narrowly unto all my paths;

Thou ^psettest a print upon the heels of my feet.

²⁸And he, as a ^qrotten thing, consumeth,

As a garment that is ^rmoth-eaten.

XIV.