¹⁰ See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;

²⁴ Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

²⁵ Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

¹¹ His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

³⁰ If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;

³¹ Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.

¹⁵ That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.

¹⁶ And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:

¹⁷ That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

¹⁶ For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

⁹ I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

²¹ You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.

³⁵ If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!

⁵ For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;