Job 13:13–28

¹³“Let me have silence, and I will speak,

and let come on me what may.

¹⁴Why should I take my flesh in my teeth

and ^oput my life in my hand?

^15pThough he slay me, I will ^qhope in him;¹

yet I will ^rargue my ways to his face.

¹⁶This will be my salvation,

that the godless shall not come before him.

^17sKeep listening to my words,

and let my declaration be in your ears.

¹⁸Behold, I have ^tprepared my case;

I know that I shall be in the right.

^19uWho is there who will contend with me?

For then I would be silent and die.

²⁰Only grant me two things,

then I will not ^vhide myself from your face:

^21wwithdraw your hand far from me,

and let not ^xdread of you terrify me.

^22yThen call, and I will answer;

or let me speak, and you reply to me.

²³How many are my iniquities and my sins?

^zMake me know my transgression and my sin.

²⁴Why ^ado you hide your face

and ^bcount me as your enemy?

²⁵Will you frighten ^ca driven leaf

and pursue dry ^dchaff?

²⁶For you ^ewrite bitter things against me

and make me inherit ^fthe iniquities of my youth.

²⁷You put my feet in ^gthe stocks

and ^hwatch all my paths;

you set a limit for² the soles of my feet.

²⁸Man³ wastes away like ⁱa rotten thing,

like a garment that is ^jmoth-eaten.