Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

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

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

Is it any pleasure to Shaddai, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?

The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

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

For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty??

If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.