Job 16:21

Bishops' Bible (1568)

O that a body might pleate with God, as one man doth with an other:

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  • Job 31:35 : 35 O that I had one which woulde heare me: beholde my signe in the whiche the almightie shal aunswere for me, though he that is my contrarie partie hath written a booke against me.
  • Job 40:1-5 : 1 Moreouer the Lorde spake vnto Iob, and saide: 2 Shall he whom the almightie wyl chasten, contend with him? Should not he which disputeth with God, geue him an aunswere? 3 Then Iob aunswered the Lorde, saying: 4 Beholde, I am vyle, what shall I aunswere thee, therefore I wyll laye my hande vpon my mouth. 5 Once haue I spoken, but I wyll saye no more: yea twyse, but I wyl proceede no further.
  • Eccl 6:10 : 10 The thyng that hath ben, is named alredy, and knowen that it is euen man him selfe: neither may he go to lawe with him that is mightier then he.
  • Isa 45:9 : 9 Wo be vnto hym that striueth with his maker, let the potsherde striue with the potsherdes of the earth: Saieth the clay to the potter, What makest thou? or, thy worke is not perfectly done.
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But O man, what art thou which disputest with God? Shall the worke say to the workeman, why hast thou made me on this fashion?
  • Job 9:34-35 : 34 Let hym take his rodde away from me, yea let hym make me no more afrayde of him, 35 And then shall I aunswere hym without any feare: but because I am not so, I holde me still.
  • Job 13:3 : 3 Neuerthelesse, I talke with the almightie, and my desire is to commune with God.
  • Job 13:22 : 22 Then call, and I wyll aunswere: or let me speake, and geue me then an aunswere.
  • Job 23:3-7 : 3 O that I might know him, and finde him, and that I might come before his seate: 4 I woulde pleade my cause before hym, and fill my mouth with argumentes: 5 I woulde knowe what aunswere he woulde geue me, and vnderstande what he woulde say vnto me. 6 Will he pleade against me with his great power? No, but he will make me the stronger. 7 There the righteous might dispute with him, so shoulde I be deliuered for euer from my iudge.

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