For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.
You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand.
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you;
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Do you think this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God’s?
Then would I yet have comfort; yea, I would strengthen myself in sorrow: let him not spare me; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
I have sinned; what shall I do for you, O you preserver of men? why have you considered me as a target for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
For I give you good instruction; do not forsake my law.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: