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.

Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.

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.

He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.

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

Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

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.

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.