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

¹⁷ May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

²⁰ Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

⁴ How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

² Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

³ O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?

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

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

² And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;

³ Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

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

⁴⁶ If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;