Job 13:17-28

17“Listen carefully to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.

18See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I will be vindicated.

19Who will contend with me? If so, I will be silent and die.

20“Only two things do not do to me; then I will not hide from Your face:

21withdraw Your hand far from me, and do not assail me with Your terror.

22Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and You respond to me.

23How many are my iniquities and sins? Show me my transgressions and sin.

24Why do You hide Your face and consider me Your enemy?

25Will You frighten a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?

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

27You put my feet in shackles and watch all my paths; You put marks on the soles of my feet.

28“So he wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.