Who is there that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
Thy hands fashioned and made me; and now thou dost turn about and destroy me.
“Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
Only grant two things to me, then I will not hide myself from thy face:
If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,
If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be.”
If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
Behold, the Lord God helps me; who will declare me guilty? Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.
If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.
Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies;