Job 6:29

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Turn, I pray; let no wrong be done. Turn now; my vindication is at stake.

If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.

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.

I have indeed prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.

But you, come back now, all of you, and I shall not find a sensible person among you.

know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net around me.

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come out like gold.

For Job has said, ‘I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;

Then Job answered the Lord:

therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

Then once more you shall see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.