For you said: "My word is pure, and I am clean in your sight."
And you know that I have done nothing impious, yet there is no one who can deliver from your hand.
Yet I wish that God would speak with you, and would open his lips to you,
Who can make him clean who is conceived of unclean seed? Are you not the only one who can?
Does it seem right to you in your thoughts, that you should say, "I am more just than God?"
And may this be my consolation, that in afflicting me with sorrow, although he might not be lenient with me, I still do not contradict the words of the Holy One.
I have sinned; what should I do for you, O keeper of men? Why have you set me against you, so that I have become burdensome even to myself?
I will bestow upon you a good gift. Do not relinquish my law.
But sanctify Christ the Lord in your hearts, being always ready to give an explanation to all who ask you the reason for that hope which is in you.