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 who can deliver out of Your hand.
But who will grant that God would speak, and open His lips against you,
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!
Do you think this to be right, you that say, I am more just than God?
And it is yet my comfort; yea, I would rejoice in pain, though He did not spare me; for I have not hidden the words of the Holy One.
I have sinned. What shall I do to You, O Watcher of men? Why have You set me as a target for You, so that I am a burden to myself?
For I give you good teaching; do not forsake my law.
but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason of the hope in you, with meekness and fear;