Job 23:4

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

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

Put me in remembrance, let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.

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

For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon my guilt, for it is great.

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

But thou didst say, ‘I will do you good, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’ ”

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 seat!

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

“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”