רִיבּ רוּב

Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.

A Psalm of David. Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.

Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.

Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.

For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.

Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.