You said, I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and no iniquity is in me;
though no violence is in my palm, and my prayer is pure.
It is on Your knowing that I am not a wicked one; and there is no one delivering out of Your hand.
For you have said, My doctrine is pure; and, I am clean in Your eyes.
though I were the perfect one, I would not know my own soul; I despise my life.
I put on righteousness and it clothed me; my judgment was like a robe and a turban.
Yet you say, Because I am free from guilt, surely His anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will judge with you, because you say, I have not sinned.
Upright ones shall be amazed at this; and the innocent one shall stir himself against the godless one.
How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my transgressions and my sin.
Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I shall be justified.
I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that You will not hold me innocent;
If the whip kills suddenly, He will mock at the testing of the innocent.
He falls on me me with a tempest, and adds to my wounds without cause;
And why do You not lift up my transgression, and make my iniquity pass away? For now I shall lie down in the dust, and You shall seek me; but I will not be.
If I sin, even You watch me; and You will not acquit me from my guilt.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You cover over my iniquity.
Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of words.
For Job has said, I am righteous; also, God has turned away my right;
And the righteous one shall hold firmly on his way; and he of clean hands adds strength.
But He knows the way with me. When I am tried, I shall come forth as gold.
And these three men rested from answering Job, because he was a righteous one in his own eyes.
should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable, without transgression.
Do you think this is for judgment, you that say, my righteousness is more than God’s?