I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?
If I be wicked, Why then labour I in vain?
I shall be held guilty and be condemned; why then should I labor in vain [to appear innocent]?
I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?
I myself am thought guilty; why have I tried so hard in vain?
Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain?
But if so also, I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?
I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.
although you know that I am not guilty, and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?
“Oh, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.
Look, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy;
Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
It is all one; therefore I say, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
The Lord will not abandon them to their power, or let them be condemned when they are brought to trial.
All in vain I have kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.
you say, “I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.” Now I am bringing you to judgment for saying, “I have not sinned.”