Job 13:13–28

¹³Hold your peace from me, and I will 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, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him. ¹⁶This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face. ¹⁷Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears. ¹⁸Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified. ¹⁹Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire. ²⁰Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee. ²¹Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid: ²²Then call, and I will answer; or I will speak, and answer thou me.

²³How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin. ²⁴Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy? ²⁵Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble? ²⁶For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth; ²⁷And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; — ²⁸One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.