For Job has said, I am righteous: and God has taken away my justice.
You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand.
For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.
Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be justified.
Not for any violence in my hands: also my prayer is pure.
Behold, I cry out concerning wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no justice.
As God lives, who has taken away my right; and the Almighty, who has made bitter my soul;
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my justice was as a robe and a turban.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
Let us choose for us justice: let us know among ourselves what is good.
Return, I pray you, let it not be injustice; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?
For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
Why say you, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is passed over by my God?