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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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20 Not a single person on earth is always good and never sins.

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20 Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous,(A)
    no one who does what is right and never sins.(B)

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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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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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Must you keep an eye on such a frail creature
    and demand an accounting from me?

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Do you fix your eye on them?(A)
    Will you bring them[a] before you for judgment?(B)

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Footnotes

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

16 Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2:16 Some translators hold that the quotation extends through verse 14; others through verse 16; and still others through verse 21.

16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law,(A) but by faith in Jesus Christ.(B) So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in[a] Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.(C)

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  1. Galatians 2:16 Or but through the faithfulness of … justified on the basis of the faithfulness of

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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10 If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.

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10 If we claim we have not sinned,(A) we make him out to be a liar(B) and his word is not in us.(C)

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14 Can any mortal be pure?
    Can anyone born of a woman be just?

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14 “What are mortals, that they could be pure,
    or those born of woman,(A) that they could be righteous?(B)

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

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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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I lavish unfailing love to a thousand generations.[a]
    I forgive iniquity, rebellion, and sin.
But I do not excuse the guilty.
    I lay the sins of the parents upon their children and grandchildren;
the entire family is affected—
    even children in the third and fourth generations.”

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Footnotes

  1. 34:7 Hebrew for thousands.

maintaining love to thousands,(A) and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.(B) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished;(C) he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”(D)

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

“Indeed, I know that this is true.
    But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?(A)
Though they wished to dispute with him,(B)
    they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.(C)

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