You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?
For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.’
I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.
you say, ‘I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.’ Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, ‘I have not sinned.’
Upright men are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.
I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know thou wilt not hold me innocent.
When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
For he crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;
Why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be.”
If I sin, thou dost mark me, and dost not acquit me of my iniquity.
my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and thou wouldest cover over my iniquity.
“Surely, you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the sound of your words.
For Job has said, ‘I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;
Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he that has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
“Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’