Job 6:29

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

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But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.

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

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

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

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

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, am a laughingstock.

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

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

Then Job answered the Lord: