Job 23:4

A Conservative Version

I would set my case in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

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Behold now, I have set my case in order. I know that I am righteous.

Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Set thou forth [thy case] that thou may be justified.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against a profane nation. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

Teach us what we shall say to him. We cannot set in array because of darkness.

And thou said, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

Shall he who quibbles contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.