Job 13:19

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Who can contend with me? For now, if I am silent, I will perish.

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  • Isa 50:7-8 : 7 Because the Sovereign LORD helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore, I have set my face like flint, and I know that I will not be put to shame. 8 He who vindicates me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us face each other. Who is my accuser? Let him confront me.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 But if I say, 'I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,' His word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.
  • Rom 8:33 : 33 Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
  • Job 7:11 : 11 Therefore, I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 10:8 : 8 Your hands shaped me and made me, yet now You destroy me completely.
  • Job 13:13 : 13 Be silent and let me speak. Whatever happens to me, let it come!
  • Job 19:5 : 5 If indeed you are exalting yourselves over me and using my disgrace to argue against me,
  • Job 33:5-7 : 5 If you can, answer me; prepare yourself before me and take your stand. 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.
  • Job 33:32 : 32 If you have anything to say, answer me; speak up, for I want to justify you.

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  • Job 9:19-20
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    19 If it is a matter of strength, He is mighty! And if it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

    20 Even if I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would prove me perverse.

  • 18 See now, I have prepared my case; I know I will be vindicated.

  • Job 13:13-15
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    81%

    13 Be silent and let me speak. Whatever happens to me, let it come!

    14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands?

    15 Though He slay me, yet I will hope in Him. Nevertheless, I will defend my ways before Him.

  • Job 23:4-7
    4 verses
    79%

    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.

  • 20 Only grant me these two things, so that I will not hide myself from You:

  • 4 Is my complaint directed to a man? Why then should my spirit not be impatient?

  • 8 He who vindicates me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us face each other. Who is my accuser? Let him confront me.

  • Job 7:11-12
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    11 Therefore, I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

    12 Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you put me under guard?

  • Job 10:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1 I am disgusted with my life; I will give voice to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.

    2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me; tell me why You contend with me.

  • Job 9:14-15
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    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.

  • 6 Listen now to my argument and pay attention to the contentions of my lips.

  • 22 Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You respond to me.

  • 20 Should it be told to Him that I would speak? Or should a man say that he would be swallowed up?

  • 8 Would you indeed annul My justice? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

  • 21 Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.

  • 5 If indeed you are exalting yourselves over me and using my disgrace to argue against me,

  • 20 Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

  • Job 9:27-28
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    27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and smile,'

    28 I still dread all my suffering, for I know You will not hold me innocent.

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

  • 10 It would still be my comfort— I would even exult in the midst of unrelenting pain— for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 33:31-32
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    31 Pay attention, Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

    32 If you have anything to say, answer me; speak up, for I want to justify you.

  • 7 Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.

  • 3 If someone desired to argue with Him, they could not answer Him once in a thousand times.

  • 19 Will you never look away from me or leave me alone till I swallow my spit?

  • 35 Then I would speak without fear of Him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.

  • 13 Why do you contend with Him? For He does not answer all of man's words.

  • 6 If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, what do I lose?

  • 2 I said, 'I will guard my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will keep a muzzle on my mouth while the wicked are in my presence.'

  • 14 But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.

  • 19 Listen to me, Lord! Hear what my accusers are saying!

  • 2 Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? Let the one who argues with God answer.

  • 13 If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me!

  • 21 Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as one does for his neighbor.

  • 15 What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He has done this. I will walk humbly all my years because of this anguish of my soul.

  • 32 For He is not a man, like me, that I might answer Him, that we might go to court together.

  • 5 If you can, answer me; prepare yourself before me and take your stand.

  • 14 what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when He calls me to account?

  • 24 Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

  • 25 If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and make my words nothing?