A Direct Appeal to God

Job 13:20-28

Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not be hid:

Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me.

Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me.

How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my crimes and offenses.

Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?

Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.

For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me for the sins of my youth.

Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:

Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is motheaten.