Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.

I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.

“Surely, God does not reject a blameless man, nor does he grasp the hand of the evildoers.

“It is all one! That is why I say, ‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And that man was pure and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

So the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil.”

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason.”