⁴ For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in thine eyes.

⁷ Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?

¹⁰ And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

²⁹ Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

³⁰ Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?

²⁰ If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?

² Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?

³ If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

⁴ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

⁵ For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:

⁶ Notwithstanding my right I am `accounted' a liar; My wound is incurable, `though I am' without transgression.

² Thinkest thou this to be `thy' right, `Or' sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God's,

¹⁵ but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: `being' ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear: