Behold now, I have set my case in order. I know that I am righteous.
I would set my case in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.
Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Set thou forth [thy case] that thou may be justified.
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbor!
Though I be righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice. Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
Though I were perfect, I do not regard myself. I despise my life.
although thou know that I am not wicked. And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?
I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God, and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.
I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.
So these three men ceased to answer Job because he was righteous in his own eyes.
I am clean, without transgression. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
For Job has said, I am righteous, and God has taken away my right.