²⁰ “Only grant me these two things, God,
and then I will not hide from you:
²¹ Withdraw your hand far from me,
and stop frightening me with your terrors.
²² Then summon me and I will answer,
or let me speak, and you reply to me.
²³ How many wrongs and sins have I committed?
Show me my offense and my sin.
²⁴ Why do you hide your face
and consider me your enemy?
Job 13:20-24

⁷ “At least there is hope for a tree:
If it is cut down, it will sprout again,
and its new shoots will not fail.
⁸ Its roots may grow old in the ground
and its stump die in the soil,
⁹ yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put forth shoots like a plant.
¹⁰ But a man dies and is laid low;
he breathes his last and is no more.
¹¹ As the water of a lake dries up
or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,
¹² so he lies down and does not rise;
till the heavens are no more, people will not awake
or be roused from their sleep.
¹³ “If only you would hide me in the grave
and conceal me till your anger has passed!
If only you would set me a time
and then remember me!
¹⁴ If someone dies, will they live again?
All the days of my hard service
I will wait for my renewal to come.
¹⁵ You will call and I will answer you;
you will long for the creature your hands have made.
¹⁶ Surely then you will count my steps
but not keep track of my sin.
¹⁷ My offenses will be sealed up in a bag;
you will cover over my sin.
Job 14:7-17