For you have said, ‘My teaching is pure, And I am clean in your eyes.’
You know that I am not wicked, and there is none who 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? There is no one.
“Do you think this is right, that you say, ‘My righteousness is before God’?
Then I would still have comfort; I would revel in pain; it will not subside, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
Have I sinned? What am I doing to You, O You watcher of men? Why have You set me as Your target, so that I am a burden to myself?
for I give you good teaching; do not forsake my teaching.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to every man who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you, with gentleness and fear.