You said, I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and no iniquity is in me;
If I sin, even You watch me; and You will not acquit me from my guilt.
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.
Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I shall be justified.
How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my transgressions and my sin.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You cover over my iniquity.
though no violence is in my palm, and my prayer is pure.
Upright ones shall be amazed at this; and the innocent one shall stir himself against the godless one.
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.
I put on righteousness and it clothed me; my judgment was like a robe and a turban.
And these three men rested from answering Job, because he was a righteous one in his own eyes.
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;
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?
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.
He falls on me me with a tempest, and adds to my wounds without cause;
though I were the perfect one, I would not know my own soul; I despise my life.
If the whip kills suddenly, He will mock at the testing of the innocent.
I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that You will not hold me innocent;
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.