For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.
You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand.
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you;
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? no one.
Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God’s?
Then should I still have comfort; yea, I would exult myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
I have sinned; what shall I do unto you, O you preserver of men? why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?
For I give you good doctrine, forsake not my law.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: