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You claim, ‘My beliefs are pure,’
    and ‘I am clean in the sight of God.’

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Although you know I am not guilty,
    no one can rescue me from your hands.

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10 At least I can take comfort in this:
    Despite the pain,
    I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

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15 Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it.

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“Do you think it is right for you to claim,
    ‘I am righteous before God’?

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For Job also said, ‘I am innocent,
    but God has taken away my rights.
I am innocent, but they call me a liar.
    My suffering is incurable, though I have not sinned.’

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Who can bring purity out of an impure person?
    No one!

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“Yes, I know all this is true in principle.
    But how can a person be declared innocent in God’s sight?
If someone wanted to take God to court,[a]
    would it be possible to answer him even once in a thousand times?

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Footnotes

  1. 9:3 Or If God wanted to take someone to court.

20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you,
    O watcher of all humanity?
Why make me your target?
    Am I a burden to you?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 7:20 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads target, so that I am a burden to myself?

29 Stop assuming my guilt,
    for I have done no wrong.
30 Do you think I am lying?
    Don’t I know the difference between right and wrong?

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