For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

And thou sayest, What doth God know? will he judge through the dark cloud?

For they have made low, And thou sayest, 'Lift up.' And the bowed down of eyes he saveth.

Thinkest thou this to be thy right, Or'sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God's,

For thou sayest, 'What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment is before Him, and stay for Him.

But, now, because it is not so, thou sayest - His anger hath punished, and yet hath he not at all known of transgression;