15 If I am guilty(A)—woe to me!(B)
    Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head,(C)
for I am full of shame
    and drowned in[a] my affliction.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 10:15 Or and aware of

15 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;

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29 Relent, do not be unjust;(A)
    reconsider, for my integrity(B) is at stake.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:29 Or my righteousness still stands

29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

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You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless(A)
    and I am pure(B) in your sight.’

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For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

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17 yet my hands have been free of violence(A)
    and my prayer is pure.(B)

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17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

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I will never admit you are in the right;
    till I die, I will not deny my integrity.(A)

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God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

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I will maintain my innocence(A) and never let go of it;
    my conscience(B) will not reproach me as long as I live.(C)

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My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

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let God weigh me(A) in honest scales(B)
    and he will know that I am blameless(C)

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Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.

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Elihu

32 So these three men stopped answering Job,(A) because he was righteous in his own eyes.(B)

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32 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

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