Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.

Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?

For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.