And thou sayest, `Pure `is' my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'
For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.
And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.
Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- `My righteousness `is' more than God's?'
And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain -- He doth not spare,) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One.
I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself -- and what?
For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not.
and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And `be' ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that `is' in you, with meekness and fear;