Look, please, I have prepared my case, I know that I am in the right.
For You know that I am not wrong, and there is no one to deliver from Your hand.
I have become a laughing-stock to my friends – one who has called on Eloah and He answered him! A laughing-stock is the righteous, the perfect one!
Listen closely to my words, and with your ears to what I say.
O that one might plead for a man with Eloah, as a man with his neighbour!
I would present my case before Him, and fill my mouth with proofs.
My righteousness I hold fast, and I do not let it go. My heart does not reproach me as long as I live.
Then these three men ceased to answer Iyoḇ
‘I am clear, without transgression; I am innocent, and I have no crookedness.
For Iyoḇ
Relent, please, let there be no unrighteousness. Relent! My righteousness is still in it.
If I am righteous? My mouth would declare me wrong. Am I perfect? It would declare me perverse.
Am I perfect? Do I not know my own being? I despise my life!
“Remind Me, let us enter into judgment, together; relate, that you might be declared right.
For our boasting is this: the witness of our conscience that we behaved ourselves in the world in simplicity and sincerity of Elohim, not in fleshly wisdom but in the favour of Elohim, and much more toward you.