For Job has said, ‘I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;
although you know that I am not guilty, and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?
For you say, ‘My conduct is pure, and I am clean in God’s sight.’
I have indeed prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.
though there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Even when I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.
“As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.
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.
Let us choose what is right; let us determine among ourselves what is good.
Turn, I pray; let no wrong be done. Turn now; my vindication is at stake.
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;
Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God”?