24  ^u“Teach me, and I will be silent;

make me understand how I have gone astray.

21  Why do you not ^spardon my transgression

and take away my iniquity?

For now I shall lie in the earth;

you will seek me, but I shall not be.”

20  Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me;

though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.