I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
How then can man be justified 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 kindred 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 true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.