Pleading

I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.

Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.