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

Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

“As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter –

For Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.

Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.’