'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
For you say, 'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.'
See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
So these three men ceased to answer Iyov, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
*Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
For Iyov has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'
*Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'
Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.*
For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
I am blameless. I don't regard myself. I despise my life.
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.
Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned.