⁹ Who saith, `I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'

⁴⁶ `When they sin against Thee (for there is not a man who sinneth not), and Thou hast been angry with them, and hast given them up before an enemy, and they have taken captive their captivity unto the land of the enemy far off or near;

²⁰ Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.

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

³⁶ `When they sin against Thee -- for there is not a man who sinneth not -- and Thou hast been angry with them, and hast given them before an enemy, and taken them captive have their captors, unto a land far off or near;

⁸ if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

⁹ if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

¹⁰ if we may say -- `we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

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;

⁴ for of nothing to myself have I been conscious, but not in this have I been declared right -- and he who is discerning me is the Lord:

⁵ Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

⁴ And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman?

¹⁴ What `is' man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?