³⁵ And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.

¹³ He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.

⁹ I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:

³ They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

⁹ For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.

²³ How are you able to say, I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, be clear about what you have done: you are a quick-footed camel twisting her way in and out;

²⁹ Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.

³¹ A noise will come, even to the end of the earth; for the Lord has a cause against the nations, he will give his decision against all flesh; as for the evil-doers, he will give them to the sword, says the Lord.

⁹ And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

⁹ If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.

¹⁰ If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.