Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy,
He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary.
Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy? Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
For Job has said, ‘I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!
You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me.
He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin;
If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction. And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me. You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.
If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
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