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.
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.
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.
“Do you think this is right, that you say, ‘My righteousness is before God’?
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is no 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?
But oh, that God would speak and open His lips against you,
for I give you good teaching; do not forsake my teaching.