²⁰ If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! -- it declareth me perverse.

³⁵ Job -- not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words `are' not with wisdom.

⁵ For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.

⁶ Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.

² for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one `is' a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

⁵ wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;

¹² Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;

¹³ brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth --

¹⁴ to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ As many, therefore, as `are' perfect -- let us think this, and if `in' anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,

¹⁵ and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, `is' abomination before God;

²⁹ And he, willing to declare himself righteous, said unto Jesus, `And who is my neighbour?'

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.'

⁵ And I say, `Wo to me, for I have been silent, For a man -- unclean of lips `am' I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.'

²⁰ The perverse of heart findeth not good, And the turned in his tongue falleth into evil.

¹⁹ In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips `is' wise.

² And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.

³ If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

¹⁶ And Job `with' vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.

⁸ Surely -- thou hast said in mine ears, And the sounds of words I hear:

⁹ `Pure `am' I, without transgression, Innocent `am' I, and I have no iniquity.

¹⁰ Lo, occasions against me He doth find, He doth reckon me for an enemy to Him,

¹¹ He doth put in the stocks my feet, He doth watch all my paths.'

¹² Lo, `in' this thou hast not been righteous, I answer thee, that greater is God than man.

¹³ Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When `for' all His matters He answereth not?

¹ And these three men cease from answering Job, for he `is' righteous in his own eyes,

² and burn doth the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram; against Job hath his anger burned, because of his justifying himself more than God;

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

¹⁷ `Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?

¹ A man there hath been in the land of Uz -- Job his name -- and that man hath been perfect and upright -- both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.