Be Quiet While I Speak

¹⁷ Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears. ¹⁸ See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous. ¹⁹ Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

Job

Job 23:4

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

Job 9:2-3

"Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

Job 9:20

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

Job 16:21

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

Job 40:7-8

"Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.

Isaiah 43:26

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

Romans 8:33-34

Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

2 Corinthians 1:12

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