Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.
If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
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.
See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.
know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.
For Iyov has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
Then Iyov answered the LORD,
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.*
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.