18. See now, I have prepared my case;I know that I am right.
19. Who will contend with me?If anyone can, I will be silent and die.
20. Only in two things spare me, O God,and then I will not hide from your face:
21. Remove your hand far from meand stop making me afraid with your terror.
22. Then call, and I will answer,or I will speak, and you respond to me.
23. How many are my iniquities and sins?Show me my transgression and my sin.
24. Why do you hide your faceand regard me as your enemy?
25. Do you wish to torment a windblown leafand chase after dry chaff?
26. For you write down bitter things against meand cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.
27. And you put my feet in the stocksand you watch all my movements;you put marks on the soles of my feet.
28. So I waste away like something rotten,like a garment eaten by moths.