⁴ For you say, 'My doctrine is pure, I am clean in your eyes.'

⁷ Although you know that I am not wicked, There is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

¹⁰ Be it still my consolation, Yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

²⁹ Please return. Let there be no injustice; Yes, return again, my cause is righteous.

³⁰ Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?

²⁰ If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, So that I am a burden to myself?

² "Truly I know that it is so, But how can man be just with God?

³ If he is pleased to contend with him, He can't answer him one time in a thousand.

⁴ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

⁵ For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

⁶ Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'

² "Do you think this to be your right, Or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'

¹⁵ But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear: