Verse 3

But I desire to speak to the Almighty, and I wish to reason with God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 41:21 : 21 Present your case, says the Lord. Set forth your arguments, says Jacob’s King.
  • Job 9:3 : 3 If someone desired to argue with Him, they could not answer Him once in a thousand times.
  • Job 13:22 : 22 Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You respond to me.
  • 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.
  • Isa 1:18-20 : 18 "Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land. 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
  • 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 9:14-15 : 14 How then can I answer Him? I would choose my words carefully in His presence. 15 Even if I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I could only plead for mercy with my judge.
  • Job 9:34-35 : 34 Let Him remove His rod from me, and let His terror not frighten me. 35 Then I would speak without fear of Him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.
  • Job 11:5 : 5 But oh, that God would speak and open His lips against you,
  • Job 13:15 : 15 Though He slay me, yet I will hope in Him. Nevertheless, I will defend my ways before Him.
  • Jer 12:1-2 : 1 You are righteous, LORD, even when I bring my case to you. Yet I want to discuss your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those who betray others at ease? 2 You have planted them, and they have taken root; they grow and bear fruit. You are near to their lips but far from their hearts.
  • Mic 6:2 : 2 Hear, O mountains, the Lord's lawsuit, and you enduring foundations of the earth. For the Lord has a case against His people, and He will dispute with Israel.