⁴ For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

⁷ Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

¹⁰ Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

²⁹ Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

³⁰ Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

²⁰ I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

² I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

³ If he will 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 judgment.

⁶ Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.

² Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

¹⁵ But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: