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Job 13:19-27 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

19. Can others bring charges against me? If they can, I'll keep quiet and die.

20. "God, I won't hide from you. Here are the only two things I want.

21. Keep your powerful hand far away from me. And stop making me so afraid.

22. Then send for me, and I'll answer. Or let me speak, and you reply.

23. How many things have I done wrong? How many sins have I committed? Show me my crime. Show me my sin.

24. Why do you turn your face away from me? Why do you think of me as your enemy?

25. I'm already like a leaf that is blown by the wind. Are you going to terrify me even more? I'm already like dry straw. Are you going to keep on chasing me?

26. You write down bitter things against me. You make me suffer for the sins I committed when I was young.

27. You put my feet in chains. You watch every step I take. You do it by putting marks on the bottom of my feet.

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