¹⁷ ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God?
Can a man be more pure than his Maker?

² Do not enter into judgment with Your servant,
^(A)For in Your sight no one living is righteous.

^4 (A)How then can man be righteous before God?
Or how can he be ^(B)pure who is born of a woman?

⁹ ‘I^(A) am pure, without transgression;
I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.

³ And ^(A)do You open Your eyes on such a one,
And ^(B)bring ^[a]me to judgment with Yourself?
⁴ Who ^(C)can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
No one!