So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; tell me why You contend with me.’
though You know that I am not guilty, yet there is no one to deliver from Your hand?
Even if He slays me, I will wait for Him; I will surely defend my ways before Him.
See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I will be vindicated.
For your iniquity prompts your mouth and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Is not your wickedness great, and is there no end to your iniquity?
There the upright can reason with Him, and there I would forever be delivered from my Judge.
“Indeed, you have said in my hearing, —I heard the sound of the words:
‘I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, without iniquity.
“Would you really annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
Relent, do not be unjust; reconsider, for my righteousness is in it.