Job 13:20

Modern

Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You:

Traditional

Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

Literal

Only two things may You not do with me; then from Your face I will not hide myself.

Latin

Duo tantum ne facias mihi, et tunc a facie tua non abscondar:

Hebrew

English

Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You:

Job thought about finding a judge to remove God's burden from him (9:33–34). Eliphaz had encouraged Job to accept God's discipline (5:17).

Job 9:34–35
Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.
Genesis 3:8–10
Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
Psalm 139:12
…even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
Revelation 6:15–16
Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.