Job 6:29

A Conservative Version

Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice. Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

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But as for you all, come on now again, and I shall not find a wise man among you.

Then ye shall return and discern between the righteous man and the wicked man, between him who serves God and him who does not serve him.

Therefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.

For Job has said, I am righteous, and God has taken away my right.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

If I be wicked, woe to me. And if I be righteous, yet I shall not lift up my head, being filled with shame, and looking upon my affliction.

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.

Behold now, I have set my case in order. I know that I am righteous.

know now that God has subverted me, and has encompassed me with his net.

Then Job answered LORD, and said,