I have indeed prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.
although you know that I am not guilty, and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?
I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, I am a laughingstock.
Listen carefully to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.
that he would maintain the right of a mortal with God, as one does for a neighbor.
I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart will not reproach me as long as I live.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.
For Job has said, ‘I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;
Turn, I pray; let no wrong be done. Turn now; my vindication is at stake.
Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
I am blameless; I do not know myself; I loathe my life.
Accuse me; let us go to trial; set forth your case, so that you may be proved right.
Indeed, this is our boast, the testimony of our conscience: we have behaved in the world with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God—and all the more toward you.