Will no one listen to what I am saying? I swear that every word is true. Let Almighty God answer me. If the charges my opponent brings against me were written down so that I could see them,

I would tell God everything I have done, and hold my head high in his presence.

if I have eaten the food that grew there but let the farmers that grew it starve---

After the LORD had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz, "I am angry with you and your two friends, because you did not speak the truth about me, the way my servant Job did.

But David said, "You must not harm him! The LORD will certainly punish whoever harms his chosen king.

"And what is truth?" Pilate asked. Then Pilate went back outside to the people and said to them, "I cannot find any reason to condemn him.

The shouting became louder, and some of the teachers of the Law who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and protested strongly: "We cannot find a thing wrong with this man! Perhaps a spirit or an angel really did speak to him!"

And so I do my best always to have a clear conscience before God and people.

Or let these who are here tell what crime they found me guilty of when I stood before the Council---

My conscience is clear, but that does not prove that I am really innocent. The Lord is the one who passes judgment on me.

We are proud that our conscience assures us that our lives in this world, and especially our relations with you, have been ruled by God-given frankness and sincerity, by the power of God's grace and not by human wisdom.

(SEE 22:2)

You know my heart. You have come to me at night; you have examined me completely and found no evil desire in me. I speak no evil,