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Even If I Am Innocent, How Can I Answer God?[a]

14 “How then can I possibly reply to him
    or devise arguments to counter him?
15 Even if I am innocent, how can I answer him?
    I can only plead that he have mercy on me.
16 “Even if I summoned him and he responded,
    I do not believe that he would listen to what I said.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:14 Hounded by the desire to obtain justice, Job would like to come before God. But the heavy burden of the trial leads him to have doubts both about his own virtue and about the justice of God.