Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
*Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.
Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
*Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.*
Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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.
The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
Then Yonah prayed to the LORD, his God, out of the fish's belly.
yet I will rejoice in the LORD. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.