I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
Not for any injustice in mine hands: Also my prayer is pure.
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; And there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in thine eyes.
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Upright men shall be astonied at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
If the scourge slay suddenly, He will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, And take away mine iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust; And thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
If I sin, then thou markest me, And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And thou sewest up mine iniquity.
Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, And I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,
For Job hath said, I am righteous: And God hath taken away my judgment.
The righteous also shall hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
But he knoweth the way that I take: When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable without transgression.
Thinkest thou this to be right, That thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?