For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear: