But yet I will speak to the Almighty: and I desire to reason with God.
Bring your cause near, saith the Lord: bring hither, if you have any thing to allege, saith the King of Jacob.
Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,
Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me.
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.
Let the mountains hear the judgment of the Lord, and the strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord will enter into judgment with his people, and he will plead against Israel.
Although he should kill me, I will trust in him. But yet I will reprove my ways in his sight;
And I wish that God would speak with thee, and would open his lips to thee,
Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God.
Gird up thy loins like a man. I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.