Job 13:19

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Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

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  • Isa 50:7-8 : 7 But the Sovereign LORD helps me, so I am not humiliated. For that reason I am steadfastly resolved; I know I will not be put to shame. 8 The one who vindicates me is close by. Who dares to argue with me? Let us confront each other! Who is my accuser? Let him challenge me!
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 Sometimes I think,“I will make no mention of his message. I will not speak as his messenger any more.” But then his message becomes like a fire locked up inside of me, burning in my heart and soul. I grow weary of trying to hold it in; I cannot contain it.
  • Rom 8:33 : 33 Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
  • Job 7:11 : 11 Job Remonstrates with God“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.
  • Job 10:8 : 8 Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.
  • Job 13:13 : 13 “Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.
  • Job 19:5 : 5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,
  • Job 33:5-7 : 5 Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand! 6 Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay. 7 Therefore no fear of me should terrify you, nor should my pressure be heavy on you.
  • Job 33:32 : 32 If you have any words, reply to me; speak, for I want to justify you.

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