For you have said, My doctrine is pure; and, I am clean in Your eyes.
It is on Your knowing that I am not a wicked one; and there is no one delivering out of Your hand.
But who will grant that God would speak and open His lips against you,
Who gives a clean thing out of an unclean one? Not one!
Do you think this is for judgment, you that say, my righteousness is more than God’s?
And it is yet my comfort; and I would exult in pain not spared; for I have not hidden the words of the Holy One.
I have sinned; what do I do to You, O Watcher of man? Why have You set me as a target for You so that I am a burden on myself?
For I give you good teaching, do not forsake my Law.
but sanctify” the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to speak in defense to every one asking you a word about the hope in you, with meekness and fear, Isa. 8:12, 13