⁶ On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.

³ And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart unto My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? and still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and thou dost move Me against him to swallow him up for nought!'

¹⁶ and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

²⁰ Jehovah doth recompense me According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, He doth return to me.

²¹ For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not done wickedly against my God.

²² For all His judgments `are' before me, And His statutes I turn not from me.

²³ And I am perfect with him, And I keep myself from mine iniquity.

¹³ Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she `is' thy life.

¹¹ I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

²⁰ because if our heart may condemn -- because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.

²¹ Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,