Job 13:12-14

Lexham English Bible

¹² Your^[a] maxims are proverbs of ashes;
your^[b] defenses are defenses of clay.
¹³ “Let me have silence,^[c] and I myself^[d] will speak,
and let come over me whatever may.
¹⁴ Why should I take my flesh in my teeth
and^[e] put^[f] my life in my hand?