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23 How many are my iniquities and sins?
    Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
24 Why do you hide your face,
    and consider me your enemy?
25 Will you harass a driven leaf?
    Will you pursue the dry stubble?
26 For you write bitter things against me,
    and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
27 You also put my feet in the stocks,
    and mark all my paths.
    You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

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23 How many[a] are my iniquities and sins?
Make known to me my transgression and my sin.
24 Why do you[b] hide your[c] face
and count me as your[d] enemy?
25 Will you[e] terrify a blown leaf?
And will you[f] pursue dry stubble?
26 “Indeed, you[g] write bitter things against me,
and you[h] make me reap the iniquities of my childhood.
27 And you[i] put my feet in the block,
and you[j] watch all my paths;
you carve a mark on the soles of my feet.[k]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 13:23 Literally “Like what”
  2. Job 13:24 Singular
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  5. Job 13:25 Singular
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  7. Job 13:26 Singular
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  9. Job 13:27 Singular
  10. Job 13:27 Singular
  11. Job 13:27 Or “You mark/note my footprints”