¹⁸ See 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 "Truly I know that it is so, But how can man be just with God?

³ If he is pleased to contend with him, He can't answer him one time in a thousand.

²⁰ Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

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

⁷ "Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.

⁸ Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

²⁶ Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set you forth [your cause], that you may be justified.

³³ Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

³⁴ Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

¹² For our boasting 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 toward you.