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.

Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what {will}. {Hold...: Heb. Be silent from me}

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}.

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.

If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. {have...: Heb. took pains about me}

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

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

If indeed ye will magnify {yourselves} against me, and plead against me my reproach:

And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer. {be...: Heb. breathe}

Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for {this} I make haste. {I make...: Heb. my haste is in me}