he will contend

Job 9:20, 32, 33
Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty. . . .

Job 10:2
I will say to God: 'Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.'

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

Job 31:35-37
Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature--let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose His indictment. . . .

Job 33:13
Why do you contend with Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

Job 34:14, 15
If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath, . . .

Job 40:2
"Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer."

Isaiah 57:15, 16
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble of spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite. . . .

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?"

he cannot

Psalm 19:12
Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.

Psalm 40:12
For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.

1 John 1:8
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 John 3:20
If our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.