Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.