“Do you think this is just? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is greater than God’s?’
though You know that I am not guilty, yet there is no one to deliver from Your hand?
yet no violence is in my hands and my prayer is pure.
‘I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, without iniquity.
“For Job says, ‘I am righteous, but God has deprived me of justice.
Then Elihu answered, saying:
“Would you really annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
He who crushes me with a storm and multiplies my wounds for no reason.
He said to him, ‘By the words of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked slave! You knew that I am strict, taking what I did not make and reaping what I did not sow?