Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: A Brief Account of God’s Exceeding Mercy through Christ to His Poor Servant, John Bunyan (Bunyan Updated Classics Book 5)

by John Bunyan

saw that I needed a perfect righteousness to present me without fault before God, and this righteousness was nowhere to be found, except in the person of Jesus Christ.

This would probably be true even if the words, "without fault" were removed. Although, in the book of Job, Satan comes before God and talks with Him.