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Job 9:29

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I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?

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I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.

although you know that I am not guilty, and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?

“Oh, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.

Look, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy;

Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

It is all one; therefore I say, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked.

The Lord will not abandon them to their power, or let them be condemned when they are brought to trial.

All in vain I have kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.

you say, “I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.” Now I am bringing you to judgment for saying, “I have not sinned.”