23 How many are [a]mine iniquities and sins, show me my rebellion and my sin.

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemy?

25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the [b]iniquities of my youth.

27 Thou puttest my feet also in the [c]stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths, and makest the print thereof in the [d]heels of my feet.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 13:23 His pangs thus move him to reason with God, not denying but that he had sinned: but he desired to understand what were his great sins that had deserved such rigor, wherein he offended that he would know a cause of God why he did punish him.
  2. Job 13:26 Thou punishest me now for the faults that I committed in my youth.
  3. Job 13:27 Thou makest me thy prisoner, and dost so press me that I cannot stir hand nor foot.
  4. Job 13:27 Hebrew, roots.

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