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

I know {it is} so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? {with God: or, before God?}

Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

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 had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

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

Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man {pleadeth} for his neighbour! {neighbour: or, friend}

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: {if I say}, I {am} perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. {maintain: Heb. prove, or, argue}

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

For {he is} not a man, as I {am, that} I should answer him, {and} we should come together in judgment.

If thou canst answer me, set {thy words} in order before me, stand up.

I am clean without transgression, I {am} innocent; neither {is there} iniquity in me.