¹⁸ Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I am righteous.

⁴ I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.

² Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?

³ If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

²⁰ Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.

²¹ That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!

⁷ Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

⁸ Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?

²⁶ Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set thou forth `thy cause', that thou mayest be justified.

³³ Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth;

³⁴ who is he that condemneth? It is Christ Jesus that died, yea rather, that was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

¹² For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.