Job 13:17-28

17Keep listening to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.

18Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.

19Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.

20Only grant me two things, then I will not hide myself from your face:

21withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me.

22Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.

23How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.

24Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

25Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?

26For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

27You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet.

28Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.