³⁵ Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned.

¹³ He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, But whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

⁹ 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

³ Why have we fasted, [say they], and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find [your own] pleasure, and exact all your labors.

⁹ Therefore I will yet contend with you, says Yahweh, and with your children's children will I contend.

²³ How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: [you are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

²⁹ Why will you contend with me? you all have transgressed against me, says Yahweh.

³¹ A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, says Yahweh.

⁹ I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

¹⁰ If we say that we haven't sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.