I know {it is} so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? {with God: or, before God?}

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean {that is} born of a woman?

For {there is} not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable {are} his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

The heart {is} deceitful above all {things}, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

The LORD {is} righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. {holy: or, merciful, or, bountiful}

And the four beasts had each of them six wings about {him}; and {they were} full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. {rest...: Gr. have no rest}

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed {it}, Why hast thou made me thus? {repliest...: or, answerest again, or, disputest with God?}

But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

Thinkest thou this to be right, {that} thou saidst, My righteousness {is} more than God's?

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

But none saith, Where {is} God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

Righteous {art} thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of {thy} judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? {wherefore} are all they happy that deal very treacherously? {talk...: or, reason the case with thee}

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.

What {is} man, that he should be clean? and {he which is} born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Who can bring a clean {thing} out of an unclean? not one. {can...: Heb. will give}

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

I know {it is} so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? {with God: or, before God?}

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean {that is} born of a woman?

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: {if I say}, I {am} perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?