¹⁹ Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

⁷ For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

⁸ He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand 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 Thine hands have made 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 me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.

⁶ Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

⁷ Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.

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

⁹ Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

³³ Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.