“Can a person be more righteous than God,
or a man more pure than his Maker?”

if you are pure and upright,
then He will move even now on your behalf
and restore the home where your righteousness dwells.

You have said, “My teaching is sound,
and I am pure in Your sight.”

Who can produce something pure from what is impure?
No one!

What is man, that he should be pure,
or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

If God puts no trust in His holy ones
and the heavens are not pure in His sight,

although my hands are free from violence
and my prayer is pure.

Yet He knows the way I have taken;
when He has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold.

How can a person be justified before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?

If even the moon does not shine
and the stars are not pure in His sight,

Topaz from Cush cannot compare with it,
and it cannot be valued in pure gold.

“I am pure, without transgression;
I am clean and have no guilt.