You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’
though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden
For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
But in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you the reason for