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For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.

For even if I have sinned, I know it not in my soul: but my life is taken away.

For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.

For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous man: he covers the faces of the judges of the earth: but if it be not he, who is it?

I quake in all my limbs, for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone as innocent.

For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,

For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment.

so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious of guilt.

Is it good before thee if I be unrighteous? for thou hast disowned the work of thy hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

For thou knowest that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of thy hands?

Having these things in thyself, I know that thou canst do all things; for nothing is impossible with thee.

Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up, for I am full of dishonour.

For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me;

and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?

Be not a speaker of many words; for is there none to answer thee?

For say not, I am pure in my works, and blameless before him.

Then shall he declare to thee the power of wisdom; for it shall be double of that which is with thee: and then shalt thou know, that a just recompence of thy sins has come to thee from the Lord.

For he knows the works of transgressors; and when he sees wickedness, he will not overlook it.

For if thou hast made thine heart pure, and liftest up thine hands towards him;

For thus shall thy countenance shine again, as pure water; and thou shalt divest thyself of uncleanness, and shalt not fear.