For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;
Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?
You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.
See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right.
Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.
By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;
I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.
So these three men gave no more answers to Job, because he seemed to himself to be right.
I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:
Let us make the decision for ourselves as to what is right; let us have the knowledge among ourselves of what is good.
Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me.
Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?
For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause.
Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?