¹⁸ See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right.

⁴ I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.

² Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

³ If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.

²⁰ Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.

²¹ So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.

⁷ Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.

⁸ Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

²⁶ Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.

³³ Who will say anything against the saints of God? It is God who makes us clear from evil;

³⁴ Who will give a decision against us? It is Christ Jesus who not only was put to death, but came again from the dead, who is now at the right hand of God, taking our part.

¹² For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.