18 I am ready now to defend myself. I will carefully present my arguments. I know I will be shown to be right.
19 If anyone can prove I am wrong, I will shut up and wait to die.
20 “God, just give me two things, and then I will not hide from you:
21 Stop punishing me, and don’t frighten me with your terrors.
22 Then call to me, and I will answer you. Or let me speak, and you answer me.
23 How many sins have I committed? What wrongs have I done? Show me where I went wrong or how I sinned.
24 God, why do you avoid me and treat me like your enemy?