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Job 23:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

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Yet you have said, ‘I will surely do you good and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of their number.’ ”

I have indeed prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.

But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his dwelling!

I would learn what he would answer me and understand what he would say to me.

Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.

“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Anyone who argues with God must respond.”

For your name’s sake, O Lord, pardon my guilt, for it is great.

Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from those who are deceitful and unjust, deliver me!

Accuse me; let us go to trial; set forth your case, so that you may be proved right.