Job 13:17–28

¹⁷Listen carefully to my words;

let my declaration ring in your ears.

¹⁸See now, I have prepared my case;

I know that I will be vindicated.

¹⁹Can anyone indict me?

If so, I will be silent and die.

²⁰Only grant these two things to me,

so that I need not hide from You:

²¹Withdraw Your hand from me,

and do not let Your terror frighten me.

²²Then call me, and I will answer,

or let me speak, and You can reply.

²³How many are my iniquities and sins?

Reveal to me my transgression and sin.

²⁴Why do You hide Your face

and consider me as Your enemy?

²⁵Would You frighten a windblown leaf?

Would You chase after dry chaff?

²⁶For You record bitter accusations against me

and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.

²⁷You put my feet in the stocks

and stand watch over all my paths;

You set a limit

for the soles of my feet.

²⁸So man wastes away like something rotten,

like a moth-eaten garment.’’