So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
For those who heard me called me blessed, and those who saw me commended me,