See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I will be vindicated.
I would lay out my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.
For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world, and most especially toward you, with simplicity and godly sincerity—not by human wisdom but by the grace of God.
Remind me, when we argue our case together—state your case, so you may be proved right.
he contends with God on behalf of man as one pleads for a friend.
Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me. If I were guiltless, it will declare me perverse.
Relent, do not be unjust; reconsider, for my righteousness is in it.
“I am guiltless. I have no concern for myself. I despise my life.
though You know that I am not guilty, yet there is no one to deliver from Your hand?
“I have become a laughingstock to my friend, though I called on God and He answered— a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!
“Listen carefully to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.
I will maintain my righteousness, and not let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for any of my days.
So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
‘I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, without iniquity.
“For Job says, ‘I am righteous, but God has deprived me of justice.