Job 11:4
You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’
BSB
ASV
For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in thine eyes.
KJV
For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
For Thou hast said, My speech is pure, and I am clean in Thine eyes. Whoso remembers the words of blessed Job, knows how falsely this charge is fastened upon his voice.
Clean - I am innocent before God; I have not sinned either by my former actions, or by my present expressions. But Zophar perverts Job's words, for he did not deny that he was a sinner, but only that he was an hypocrite.
My doctrine is pure - לקחי likchi, “my assumptions.” What I assume or take as right, and just, and true, are so; the precepts which I have formed, and the practice which I have founded on them, are all correct and perfect.
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Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
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Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.
All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
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Job 6:10It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
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I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit,…
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Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
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See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My…