Job 9:2

¹⁷‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

⁴How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

²Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

²⁰Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

³If you, LORD,^[+] kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

⁵For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right.

³Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you? ⁴Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

⁹‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

⁴⁶If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

²Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.