²¹ Withdraw your hand^(A) far from me,
    and stop frightening me with your terrors.^(B)

¹⁰ Remove your scourge from me;
    I am overcome by the blow^(A) of your hand.^(B)

⁷ No fear of me should alarm you,
    nor should my hand be heavy on you.^(A)

³⁴ someone to remove God’s rod from me,^(A)
    so that his terror would frighten me no more.^(B)

¹⁵ Will you keep to the old path
    that the wicked^(A) have trod?^(B)
16 They were carried off before their time,^(C)
    their foundations^(D) washed away by a flood.^(E)
17 They said to God, ‘Leave us alone!
    What can the Almighty do to us?’^(F)

¹¹ Would not his splendor^(A) terrify you?
    Would not the dread of him fall on you?^(B)

²⁰ Are not my few days^(A) almost over?^(B)
    Turn away from me^(C) so I can have a moment’s joy^(D)