If I am condemned, Why then do I labor in vain?
I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; Show me why You contend with me.
Although You know that I am not wicked, And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
“Look, I know your thoughts, And the schemes with which you would wrong me.
Yet He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;
Though I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; Though I were blameless, it would prove me perverse.
It is all one thing; Therefore I say, ‘He destroys the blameless and the wicked.’
The Lord will not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him when he is judged.
Surely I have cleansed my heart 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 My case against you, Because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
