For Job has said, I am righteous; and God has taken away my right;
You know that I am not wicked; and there is none who can deliver out of Your hand.
For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in Your eyes.
Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I shall be justified.
though no violence is in my hand, and my prayer is pure.
Behold, I cry out, Violence! And I am not answered. I cry aloud, but there is no justice.
As God lives, He has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty has made my soul bitter.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my judgment was like a robe and a diadem.
And these three men ceased from answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
You said, I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, and no iniquity is in me;
Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.
Turn back, please let there be no sin; yea, return again, my righteousness is in this matter.
Does God pervert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert justice?
He who breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;
Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from Jehovah and my judgment has passed over from my God?