¹⁹ Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.

⁷ For the Lord Jehovah will help me; therefore have I not been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.

⁸ He is near that justifieth me; who will content with me? let us stand up together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.

¹¹ Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

⁸ Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

¹³ Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will.

⁵ If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

⁵ If thou canst, answer thou me; Set `thy words' in order before me, stand forth.

⁶ Behold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed out of the clay.

⁷ Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, Neither shall my pressure be heavy upon thee.

³² If thou hast anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire to justify thee.

⁹ And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot `contain'.

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