"Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

just as I was in my most productive time, when God's intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,

I put on righteousness and it clothed me, my just dealing was like a robe and a turban;

Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

"Do you think this to be just: when you say, 'My right before God.'

So they went, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and did just as the Lord had told them; and the Lord had respect for Job.