Behold, I have prepared my case, I know that I am in the right.
Even though you know that I am not wicked, and that none can deliver me out of your hand?
I have become the sport of my neighbors: “The one whom God answers when he calls upon him, The just, the perfect man,” is a laughingstock;
Pay close attention to my speech, give my statement a hearing.
That justice may be done for a mortal with God: as for a man with his neighbor.
I would set out my case before him, fill my mouth with arguments;
My justice I maintain and I will not relinquish it; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
Then the three men ceased to answer Job, because in his own eyes he was in the right.
“I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, there is no guilt in me.
For Job has said, “I am innocent, but God has taken away what is my right.
Think it over; let there be no injustice. Think it over; I still am right.
Though I were right, my own mouth might condemn me; were I innocent, it might put me in the wrong.
I am innocent, but I cannot know it; I despise my life.
Would you have me remember, have us come to trial? Speak up, prove your innocence!
For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with the simplicity and sincerity of God, [and] not by human wisdom but by the grace of God.