If I am wrong, why should I labour in vain?
I say to Eloah, ‘Do not declare me wrong, show me why You strive with me.
For You know that I am not wrong, and there is no one to deliver from Your hand.
Look, I know your thoughts, and the plots with which you would wrong me.
See, He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;
If I am righteous? My mouth would declare me wrong. Am I perfect? It would declare me perverse.
It is all the same, therefore I say, ‘He destroys the perfect and the wrong.’
יהוה does not leave him in his hand, Or let him be declared wrong when he is judged.
Indeed, in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocence.
you say, ‘Because I am innocent, certainly His displeasure shall turn from me.’ See, I shall bring judgment on you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
