⁵ If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

¹³ If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

³ Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

¹⁵ Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

⁴ I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

40 Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said,

²³ Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

¹⁵ And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

12 Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

⁴ For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.