But Moses answered, “I am not a good speaker. The king will not listen to me.”
Then Moses answered, “What if the people of Israel do not believe me or listen to me? What if they say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”
But Moses said to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been a skilled speaker. Even now, after talking to you, I cannot speak well. I speak slowly and can’t find the best words.”
But Moses answered, “The Israelites will not listen to me, so surely the king will not listen to me either. I am not a good speaker.”
I said, “Oh, no! I will be destroyed. I am not pure, and I live among people who are not pure, but I have seen the King, the Lord All-Powerful.”
Then I said, “But Lord God, I don’t know how to speak. I am only a boy.”