For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.’
although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?
But oh, that God would speak, and open his lips to you,
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
“Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’
This would be my consolation; I would even exult in pain unsparing; for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
If I sin, what do I do to thee, thou watcher of men? Why hast thou made me thy mark? Why have I become a burden to thee?
for I give you good precepts: do not forsake my teaching.
but in your hearts reverence Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence;