“Do you think this is just? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is greater than God’s?’
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?
“Would you really annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
“For Job says, ‘I am righteous, but God has deprived me of justice.
yet no violence is in my hands and my prayer is pure.
though You know that I am not guilty, yet there is no one to deliver from Your hand?
He who crushes me with a storm and multiplies my wounds for no reason.
Then Elihu answered, saying:
‘I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, without iniquity.