Verse 5

But oh, that God would speak and open His lips against you,

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  • Job 38:1-2 : 1 Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind and said: 2 Who is this that darkens counsel with words without knowledge?
  • Job 40:1-5 : 1 The LORD answered Job and said: 2 Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? Let the one who argues with God answer. 3 Then Job answered the LORD and said: 4 Behold, I am insignificant. What can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth. 5 I have spoken once, but I will not answer; twice, but I will say no more.
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Would you indeed annul My justice? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?
  • Job 42:7 : 7 After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, 'My anger burns against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about Me as My servant Job has.'
  • Job 23:3-7 : 3 If only I knew where to find him, so that I might come to his dwelling. 4 I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words he would answer me with and understand what he would say to me. 6 Would he contend with me in his great power? No, he would instead give me strength. 7 There the upright could reason with him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.
  • Job 31:35 : 35 Oh, that someone would hear me! I sign now my defense; let the Almighty answer me. Let my accuser write out his charges in a book.
  • Job 33:6-9 : 6 Look, I am like you before God; I too was formed from clay. 7 See, no fear of me should terrify you, and the pressure I bring will not be heavy upon you. 8 Surely, you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard your words. 9 'I am pure, without sin; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.' 10 But look, He finds faults against me; He considers me His enemy. 11 He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches all my paths. 12 But I tell you, in this you are not right, for God is greater than a man. 13 Why do you contend with Him? For He does not answer all of man's words. 14 For God speaks in one way and in two, yet no one perceives it. 15 In a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while they slumber on their beds, 16 then He opens the ears of men and seals their instruction. 17 To turn a man from wrongdoing and to conceal pride from him. 18 He keeps his soul back from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword.