I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And that man was pure and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?
I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered – a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!
See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I am right.
‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.
And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”
Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.
The one who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but the one who walks in wisdom will escape.
For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.
that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.
