For you have said, ‘My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.’
although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?
But if only God would speak, if only he would open his lips against you,
Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
“Do you think this to be just: when you say, ‘My right before God.’
Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
If I have sinned – what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?
Because I give you good instruction, do not forsake my teaching.
But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess.