This is exactly what Job found to be the case when God gave him the opportunity to speak. He realised then that he had been in serious error in thinking he could open his mouth before God. The Lord gave him exactly what he asked for, and he had to bury his face in his shame. We have a way in our self-confidence of failing to understand in advance what it means to come before God. We think more of ourselves than we ought to think and make foolish evaluations so that we see ourselves as sharper than we are, more righteous than we are, and altogether more of a match for God than we are. The only proper response, when we realise how impulsively we have spoken, is to humble ourselves in dust and ashes with Job.
If any man attempts this in all seriousness, they are in danger of being swallowed up. All their imagined importance in projecting themselves into such a situation would evaporate as the true nature of the difference between them reasserted itself and they would find they had placed themselves in an interview with the Almighty which they were totally and utterly unready for. Their own presumption would swallow them up. The only right attitude of the man of God is to come with the utmost reverence to God so that whatever the circumstances we must confess that we are unfit to be in his presence. Part of Job understands this, for he has said, ‘If I called and He answered me, I would not believe that He was listening to my voice’ (Job 9:16), nevertheless he has still demanded such an audience with God and asked him to temporarily hide his glory that such an interview might go ahead.