Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?
What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
But none saith, Where is God my Maker, Who giveth songs in the night,
God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.