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

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

⁸ He is near who justifies me; who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together: who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

¹¹ "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

⁸ 'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether; Yet you destroy me.

¹³ "Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

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

⁵ If you can, answer me; Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.

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

⁷ Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, Neither shall my pressure be heavy on you.

³² If you have anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire to justify you.

⁹ 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 can't [contain].

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