Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.
although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
Keep listening to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.
that he would argue the case of a man with God, as[3] a son of man does with his neighbor.
I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
You say, 'I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.
For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
Please turn; let no injustice be done. Turn now; my vindication is at stake.
Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.
Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
For our boast is this: the testimony of our conscience that we behaved in the world with simplicity[3] and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.