“Present your case,” says the LORD. “Submit your arguments,” says the King of Jacob.
Then call me, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You can reply.
(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?
Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,
Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s indictment, you enduring foundations of the earth. For the LORD has a case against His people, and He will argue it against Israel:
Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.
If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.