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Job 13:23

Verse 23 of 28. The 13th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

19Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit.

20“Only don’t do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face:

21withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.

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

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

24Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

25Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

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

27You 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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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.