A Direct Appeal to God

Job 13:20-28

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

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

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

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

Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

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

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

You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.