Job 33:8–11

¹⁴Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

²³Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the Lord.

⁷Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

¹⁷Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

⁴For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

²¹Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

¹⁴I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

³⁵Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

¹⁸Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

²³How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

⁸Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

¹¹My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

¹²Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

⁵God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

⁶My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

¹⁷For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

²³If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

²⁸I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

²⁴Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

²⁵Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

¹¹He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

¹⁵If 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;

¹⁶For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

¹⁷Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

¹⁶For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

⁹He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

²¹Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

³⁵Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

⁵For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

³⁰If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

³¹Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

²⁷Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

⁴Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

²⁴Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

³⁵And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

²Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord.

¹⁶For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

¹⁸Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: