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Job 33:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.

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although my hands are free from violence and my prayer is pure.


even though you know that I am not wicked and that there is no one who can rescue from your power?


You have said, ‘My teaching  is sound, and I am pure in your sight.’


Though I am blameless, I no longer care about myself; I renounce my life.


I clothed myself in righteousness, and it enveloped me; my just decisions were like a robe and a turban.


you claim, ‘I am innocent. His anger is sure to turn away from me.’ But I will certainly judge you because you have said, ‘I have not sinned.’


The upright are appalled  at this, and the innocent are roused against the godless.


How many iniquities  and sins have I committed? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.


Now then, I have prepared my case; I know that I am right.


I would still live in terror of all my pains. I know you will not acquit me.


When catastrophe  brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.


He batters me with a whirlwind and multiplies my wounds without cause.


Why not forgive my sin and pardon my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the grave. You will eagerly seek me, but I will be gone.


if I sin, you would notice, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.


My rebellion would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.


Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very   words:


For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.


Yet the righteous person will hold to his way, and the one whose hands are clean  will grow stronger.


Yet he knows the way I have taken; when he has tested me,  I will emerge as pure gold.


So these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.


Would I lie about my case? My wound  is incurable, though I am without transgression.’


Do you think it is just when you say, ‘I am righteous before God’?





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