Job 9:29
{If} I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
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Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and {there is} none that can deliver out of thine hand. {Thou...: Heb. It is upon thy knowledge}
The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
Verily I have cleansed my heart {in} vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices {which} ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Lo, their good {is} not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
This {is} one {thing}, therefore I said {it}, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
{Is} not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they {were} naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. {aprons: or, things to gird about}
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and {if} I be righteous, {yet} will I not lift up my head. {I am} full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.