Shall you say: “My teaching is pure, and I am clean in your sight”?
Even though you know that I am not wicked, and that none can deliver me out of your hand?
But oh, that God would speak, and open his lips against you,
Can anyone make the unclean clean? No one can.
Do you think it right to say, “I am in the right, not God”?
Then I should still have consolation and could exult through unremitting pain, because I have not transgressed the commands of the Holy One.
If I sin, what do I do to you, O watcher of mortals? Why have you made me your target? Why should I be a burden for you?
Yes, excellent advice I give you; my teaching do not forsake.
but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts. Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope,