Job 13:13-19

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹³ “Let me have silence, and I will speak,
    and let come on me what may.
¹⁴ I will take^[a] my flesh in my teeth,
    and put my life in my hand.
¹⁵ Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope;
    yet I will defend my ways to his face.
¹⁶ This will be my salvation,
    that a godless man shall not come before him.
¹⁷ Listen carefully to my words,
    and let my declaration be in your ears.
¹⁸ Behold, I have prepared my case;
    I know that I shall be vindicated.
¹⁹ Who is there that will contend with me?
    For then I would be silent and die.