Job 13:18

⁴I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

²“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God? ³If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

³³Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies. ³⁴Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

²⁶Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

¹²For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

⁷“Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me. ⁸Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

²¹that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

²⁰Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.