Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.
I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
“Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God? If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
“Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me. Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.
Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
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