⁴ You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.

⁷ Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

¹⁰ So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

²⁹ Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me.

³⁰ Is there evil in my tongue? is not the cause of my trouble clear to me?

²⁰ If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

² Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

³ If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.

⁴ If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

⁵ For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

⁶ Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong.

² Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,

¹⁵ But give honour to Christ in your hearts as your Lord; and be ready at any time when you are questioned about the hope which is in you, to give an answer in the fear of the Lord and without pride;