"Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost."
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Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.
Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall expire.
Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
Who `is' he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.