Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice. Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

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

Though I be righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.

If I be wicked, woe to me. And if I be righteous, yet I shall not lift up my head, being filled with shame, and looking upon my affliction.

Behold now, I have set my case in order. I know that I am righteous.

What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou are righteous? Or is it gain [to him] that thou make thy ways perfect?

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

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

For Job has said, I am righteous, and God has taken away my right.

If thou be righteous, what do thou give him? Or what does he receive of thy hand?

He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings upon the throne, and they are exalted.