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

³⁵ 'Job speaks without knowledge, His words are without wisdom.'

⁵ For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.

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

² For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

⁵ constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

¹² Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

¹³ Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

¹⁴ I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

¹⁵ He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

²⁹ But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?"

³⁶ I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

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

⁵ Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Hosts!"

²⁰ One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, And one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

¹⁹ In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, But he who restrains his lips does wisely.

² Don't enter into judgment with your servant, For in your sight no man living is righteous.

³ If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

¹⁶ Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, And he multiplies words without knowledge."

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.

¹³ Why do you strive against him, Because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?

¹ So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

² Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

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

¹⁷ 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.