“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for j
‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an ene