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Let me alone that I may speak,</p> <p class="sl1">no matter what happens to me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22013014" class="ver">14</span>I will carry my flesh between my teeth,</p> <p class="sl1">and take my life in my hand.<a id="rfn22013014-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22013014-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22013015" class="ver">15</span>Slay me though he might,<a id="ren22013015-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22013015-c">c</a> I will wait for him;<a id="rfn22013015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22013015-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">I will defend my conduct before him.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22013016" class="ver">16</span>This shall be my salvation:</p> <p class="sl1">no impious man can come into his presence.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22013017" class="ver">17</span>Pay close attention to my speech,</p> <p class="sl1">give my statement a hearing.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22013018" class="ver">18</span>Behold, I have prepared my case,<a id="ren22013018-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22013018-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl1">I know that I am in the right.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22013019" class="ver">19</span>If anyone can make a case against me,</p> <p class="sl1">then I shall be silent and expire.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22013020" class="ver">20</span>Two things only do not use against me,<a id="rfn22013020-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22013020-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">then from your presence I need not hide:</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22013021" class="ver">21</span>Withdraw your hand far from me,</p> <p class="sl1">do not let the terror of you frighten me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22013022" class="ver">22</span>Then call me, and I will respond;</p> <p class="sl1">or let me speak first, and answer me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22013023" class="ver">23</span>What are my faults and my sins?</p> <p class="sl1">My misdeed, my sin make known to me!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22013024" class="ver">24</span>Why do you hide your face</p> <p class="sl1">and consider me your enemy?<a id="rfn22013024-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22013024-1">*</a> <a id="ren22013024-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22013024-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22013025" class="ver">25</span>Will you harass a wind-driven leaf</p> <p class="sl1">or pursue a withered straw?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22013026" class="ver">26</span>For you draw up bitter indictments against me,</p> <p class="sl1">and punish in me the faults of my youth.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22013027" class="ver">27</span>You put my feet in the stocks;</p> <p class="sl1">you watch all my paths</p> <p class="sl1">and trace out all my footsteps,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22013028" class="ver">28</span>Though I wear out like a leather bottle,</p> <p class="sl1">like a garment the moth has consumed.</p> </div> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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