⁶ Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yes, your own lips testify against you.

²² "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.

³⁷ For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."

²⁰ Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

⁶⁵ Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, "He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.

⁸ Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

³ You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.

⁸ Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

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

³ That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

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.'

⁷ What man is like Job, Who drinks scorn like water,

⁸ Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men?

⁹ For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.'

⁸ "Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,

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

¹⁰ Behold, he finds occasions against me, He counts me for his enemy:

¹¹ He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.'

¹² "Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just; For God is greater than man.