Job 13:18

Be Quiet While I Speak

¹⁷ Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. ¹⁸ Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be justified. ¹⁹ Who is he that will contend with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall die.

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 before God?

Job 9:20

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

Job 16:21

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!

Job 40:7-8

Gird up your loins now like a man: I will demand of you, and declare you unto me.

Isaiah 43:26

Put me in remembrance: let us contend together: state your case, that you may be proved right.

Romans 8:33-34

Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies.

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 conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.