I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
*Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.
Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.
Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
*It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,
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.
