I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?
you say, ‘I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.’ Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, ‘I have not sinned.’
All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.
The Lord will not abandon him to his power or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial.
“Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.
although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.
It is all one; therefore I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy,
