For Iyoḇ
For You know that I am not wrong, and there is no one to deliver from Your hand.
Since you have said, ‘My discourse is flawless, and I have been clean in Your eyes.’
Look, please, I have prepared my case, I know that I am in the right.
though no violence was on my hand, and my prayer sincere.
See, I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I am not heard. I cry aloud, but there is no right-ruling.
“As Ě
I put on righteousness, and it robed me; right-ruling was my cloak and turban.
Then these three men ceased to answer Iyoḇ
‘I am clear, without transgression; I am innocent, and I have no crookedness.
Let us choose what is right for us; let us know among us what is good.
Relent, please, let there be no unrighteousness. Relent! My righteousness is still in it.
Does Ě
For He crushes me with a storm, and has multiplied my wounds for no cause.
Why do you say, O Yaʽ
