New American Standard Bible 2020

Job 13:17-28

17Listen carefully to my speech, And let my declaration fill your ears.18Behold now, I have 1prepared my case; I know that 2I will be vindicated.19 3Who could contend with me? For then I would be silent and 4die.

20“Only two things I ask that You do not do to me, Then I will not hide from Your face:21 5Remove Your 6hand from me, And may the dread of You not terrify me.22Then call and 7I will answer; Or let me speak, then reply to me.23 8How many are my guilty deeds and sins? Make known to me my wrongdoing and my sin.24Why do You 9hide Your face And consider me 10Your enemy?25Will You scare away a 11scattered leaf? Or will You pursue the dry 12chaff?26For You write 13bitter things against me And 14make me inherit the guilty deeds of my youth.27You 15put my feet in the stocks And watch all my paths; You 16set a limit for the soles of my feet,28While 17I am decaying like a 18rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

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Notes

1. Job 13:18 Job 23:4 ↩
2. Job 13:18 Job 9:21; 10:7; 12:4 ↩
3. Job 13:19 Is 50:8 ↩
4. Job 13:19 Job 7:21; 10:8 ↩
5. Job 13:21 Job 9:34; Ps 39:10 ↩
6. Job 13:21 Lit palm ↩
7. Job 13:22 Job 9:16; 14:15 ↩
8. Job 13:23 Job 7:21 ↩
9. Job 13:24 Ps 13:1; 44:24; 88:14; Is 8:17 ↩
10. Job 13:24 Job 19:11; 33:10; Lam 2:5 ↩
11. Job 13:25 Lev 26:36 ↩
12. Job 13:25 Job 21:18 ↩
13. Job 13:26 Job 9:18 ↩
14. Job 13:26 Ps 25:7 ↩
15. Job 13:27 Job 33:11 ↩
16. Job 13:27 Lit carve for ↩
17. Job 13:28 Lit he is ↩
18. Job 13:28 Job 2:7 ↩

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