“Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?
‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
For Job has said, ‘I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.
Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God.
And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,
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