Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sin
the LORD will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned under judgment.
Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.