Job 13:13-28

English Standard Version

¹³ “Let me have silence, and I will speak,
    and let come on me what may.
¹⁴ Why should I take my flesh in my teeth
    and ^(A)put my life in my hand?
^15 (B)Though he slay me, I will ^(C)hope in him;^[a]
    yet I will ^(D)argue my ways to his face.
¹⁶ This will be my salvation,
    that the godless shall not come before him.
^17 (E)Keep listening to my words,
    and let my declaration be in your ears.
¹⁸ Behold, I have ^(F)prepared my case;
    I know that I shall be in the right.
^19 (G)Who is there who will contend with me?
    For then I would be silent and die.
²⁰ Only grant me two things,
    then I will not ^(H)hide myself from your face:
^21 (I)withdraw your hand far from me,
    and let not ^(J)dread of you terrify me.
^22 (K)Then call, and I will answer;
    or let me speak, and you reply to me.
²³ How many are my iniquities and my sins?
    ^(L)Make me know my transgression and my sin.
²⁴ Why ^(M)do you hide your face
    and ^(N)count me as your enemy?
²⁵ Will you frighten ^(O)a driven leaf
    and pursue dry ^(P)chaff?
²⁶ For you ^(Q)write bitter things against me
    and make me inherit ^(R)the iniquities of my youth.
²⁷ You put my feet in ^(S)the stocks
    and ^(T)watch all my paths;
    you set a limit for^[b] the soles of my feet.
²⁸ Man^[c] wastes away like ^(U)a rotten thing,
    like a garment that is ^(V)moth-eaten.