23 How many wrongs and sins have I committed?(A)
    Show me my offense and my sin.(B)
24 Why do you hide your face(C)
    and consider me your enemy?(D)
25 Will you torment(E) a windblown leaf?(F)
    Will you chase(G) after dry chaff?(H)
26 For you write down bitter things against me
    and make me reap the sins of my youth.(I)
27 You fasten my feet in shackles;(J)
    you keep close watch on all my paths(K)
    by putting marks on the soles of my feet.

28 “So man wastes away like something rotten,
    like a garment(L) eaten by moths.(M)

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23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

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23 How many are my iniquities and sins?
Make me know my transgression and my sin.
24 (A)Why do You hide Your face,
And (B)regard me as Your enemy?
25 (C)Will You frighten a leaf driven to and fro?
And will You pursue dry stubble?
26 For You write bitter things against me,
And (D)make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
27 (E)You put my feet in the stocks,
And watch closely all my paths.
You [a]set a limit for the [b]soles of my feet.

28 Man[c] decays like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 13:27 Lit. inscribe a print
  2. Job 13:27 Lit. roots
  3. Job 13:28 Lit. He