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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?

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“Indeed, I know that this is true.
    But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?(A)

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17 ‘Can a mortal be innocent before God?
    Can anyone be pure before the Creator?’

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20 For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are.

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20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law;(A) rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.(B)

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Don’t put your servant on trial,
    for no one is innocent before you.

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Do not bring your servant into judgment,
    for no one living is righteous(A) before you.

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How can a mortal be innocent before God?
    Can anyone born of a woman be pure?

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How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?(A)

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Lord, if you kept a record of our sins,
    who, O Lord, could ever survive?

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If you, Lord, kept a record of sins,
    Lord, who could stand?(A)

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For Job also said, ‘I am innocent,
    but God has taken away my rights.

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“Job says, ‘I am innocent,(A)
    but God denies me justice.(B)

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You said, ‘I am pure; I am without sin;
    I am innocent; I have no guilt.

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‘I am pure,(A) I have done no wrong;(B)
    I am clean and free from sin.(C)

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Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the clan of Ram, became angry. He was angry because Job refused to admit that he had sinned and that God was right in punishing him.

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But Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite,(A) of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job for justifying himself(B) rather than God.(C)

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Must you keep an eye on such a frail creature
    and demand an accounting from me?
Who can bring purity out of an impure person?
    No one!

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Do you fix your eye on them?(A)
    Will you bring them[a] before you for judgment?(B)
Who can bring what is pure(C) from the impure?(D)
    No one!(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 14:3 Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew me

46 “If they sin against you—and who has never sinned?—you might become angry with them and let their enemies conquer them and take them captive to their land far away or near.

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46 “When they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin(A)—and you become angry with them and give them over to their enemies, who take them captive(B) to their own lands, far away or near;

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