Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.
for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me! If you say, ‘How we will pursue him!’ and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’
Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.
I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments. I would know what he would answer me and understand what he would say to me. Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; he would pay attention to me. There an upright man could argue with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.
Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.
Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.
“Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further.”
if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who is there that has not been filled with his meat?’ (the sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveler), if I have concealed my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my heart, because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors— Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!
although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
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