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Job 9:29

Modern King James Version

I have been condemned; why then should I labor in vain?

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I will say to God, Do not condemn me; make me know why You contend with me.

You know that I am not wicked; and there is none who can deliver out of Your hand.

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the plots which you wrongfully hatch against me.

behold, He finds reasons to be against me, He counts me for His enemy;

If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me; though I am perfect, He shall declare me perverse.

It is One, therefore I said, He is consuming the perfect and the wicked.

Jehovah will not leave him in his hand, nor allow him to be found guilty when he is judged.

Surely I have made my heart pure in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely His anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you say, I have not sinned.