Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
But the Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame. He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.
If you have any words, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand. Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay. Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure will not be heavy upon you.
If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me,
“Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.
“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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