Job 9:29

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I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?

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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.’

All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.

The Lord will not abandon him to his power, or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial.

“Behold, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.

although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?

I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why thou dost contend against me.

It is all one; therefore I say, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked.

Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy;