13"Let me have silence, and I will speak,
and let come on me what may.
14I will take my flesh in my teeth,
and put my life in my hand.
15Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope;
yet I will defend my ways to his face.
16This will be my salvation,
that a godless man shall not come before him.
17Listen carefully to my words,
and let my declaration be in your ears.
18Behold, I have prepared my case;
I know that I shall be vindicated.
19Who is there that will contend with me?
For then I would be silent and die.
20Only grant two things to me,
then I will not hide myself from your face:
21withdraw your hand far from me,
and let not dread of you terrify me.
22Then call, and I will answer;
or let me speak, and you reply to me.
23How many are my iniquities and my sins?
Make me know my transgression and my sin.
24Why do you hide your face,
and count me as your enemy?
25Will you frighten a driven leaf
and pursue dry chaff?
26For you write bitter things against me,
and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
27You put my feet in the stocks,
and watch all my paths;
you set a bound to the soles of my feet.
28Man wastes away like a rotten thing,
like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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