⁴ And thou sayest, `Pure `is' my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'

⁷ For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.

¹⁰ And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain -- He doth not spare,) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One.

²⁹ Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again -- my righteousness `is' in it.

³⁰ Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?

²⁰ I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself -- and what?

² Truly I have known that `it is' so, And what -- is man righteous with God?

³ If he delight to strive with Him -- He doth not answer him one of a thousand.

⁴ Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

⁵ For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,

⁶ Against my right do I lie? Mortal `is' mine arrow -- without transgression.'

² This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- `My righteousness `is' more than God's?'

¹⁵ and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And `be' ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that `is' in you, with meekness and fear;