TSK · Job 13:24

Samuel said,“Why are you asking me, now that the LORD has turned away from you and has become your enemy?

If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me.

His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.

“O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,

Job’s Appeal“If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature– let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written.

Why, LORD, do you stand far off? Why do you pay no attention during times of trouble?

Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?

I said,“During the night I will remember the song I once sang; I will think very carefully.” I tried to make sense of what was happening.

I will wait patiently for the LORD, who has rejected the family of Jacob; I will wait for him.

Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.