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

³⁶ `And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

³⁷ for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'

¹⁷ Because with a tempest He bruiseth me, And hath multiplied my wounds for nought.

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

¹⁷ Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer `is' pure.

⁶ Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

⁷ Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.

² God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty -- He made my soul bitter.

³ For all the while my breath `is' in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.

⁴ My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.

⁵ Pollution to me -- if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.

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

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

⁸ Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

²² `And he saith to him, Out of thy mouth I will judge thee, evil servant: thou knewest that I am an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow!