If I am wicked, why then labor I in vain?
Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you say, I have not sinned.
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.
The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.
You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand.
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me why you contend with me.
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.
If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am blameless, it shall also prove me perverse.
Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me for his enemy,
