plead

Job 9:34, 35
Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me. . . .

Job 13:3, 22
Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God. . . .

Job 23:3-7
If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat. . . .

Job 31:35
Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature--let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose His indictment.

Job 40:1-5
And the LORD said to Job: . . .

Ecclesiastes 6:10
Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.

Isaiah 45:9
Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker--one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, 'What are you making?' Does your work say, 'He has no hands'?

Romans 9:20
But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?"

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