Job 13:20-22

Let me only beg, O great Judge of all, that thou wilt forbear to make use of two things against me. Then will I not hide myself from thee Then will I appear confidently to plead my cause before thee. Withdraw thy hand from me Suspend my torments during the time of my pleading with thee, that my mind may be at liberty. And let not thy dread make me afraid Do not present thyself to me in terrible majesty, neither deal with me in rigorous justice. Then call thou, and I will answer Then choose thy own method: either do thou charge me with hypocrisy, or more than common guilt, and I will defend myself. Or let me speak, &c. I will argue with thee concerning thy extraordinary severity toward me; and do thou show me the reasons of it. This proposal savours of self-confidence, and of irreverence toward God; for which, and the like speeches, he is reproved by God, Job 38:2; Job 40:2.