Job 13:18

Be Quiet While I Speak

¹⁷ Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. ¹⁸ Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. ¹⁹ Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

Job

Job 23:4

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

Job 9:2-3

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

Job 9:20

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

Job 16:21

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

Job 40:7-8

Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

Isaiah 43:26

Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

Romans 8:33-34

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.