¹⁸ Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.

⁴ I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill `with' arguments.

² Truly I have known that `it is' so, And what -- is man righteous with God?

³ If he delight to strive with Him -- He doth not answer him one of a thousand.

²⁰ If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! -- it declareth me perverse.

²¹ And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.

⁷ Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

⁸ Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

²⁶ Cause me to remember -- we are judged together, Declare thou that thou mayest be justified.

³³ Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God `is' He that is declaring righteous,

³⁴ who `is' he that is condemning? Christ `is' He that died, yea, rather also, was raised up; who is also on the right hand of God -- who also doth intercede for us.

¹² For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;