See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
So these three men ceased to answer Iyov, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
For Iyov has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.
Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
I am blameless. I don't regard myself. I despise my life.
Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Set forth your case, that you may be justified.
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.