Job 16:21
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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19 For lo, my witnesse is in heauen, and he that knoweth me, is in the height.
20 My friendes geue me many wordes to scorne, and myne eye powreth out teares vnto God.
- Job 23:3-75 verses76%
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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22 Yet the number of my yeres is come, and the way that I must go is at hand, from whence I shall not turne againe.
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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.
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21 Haue pitie vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friendes, for the hande of God hath touched me.
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19 What is he that wyll go to lawe with me? if I now holde my tongue I dye.
- Job 21:3-42 verses74%
3 Suffer me that I may speake, and when I haue spoken mocke on.
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- Job 9:32-332 verses73%
32 For he that I must geue aunswere vnto, and with whom I go to the lawe, is not a man as I am:
33 Neither is there any dayesman to lay his hande betweene vs.
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8 O that I might haue my desire, and that God woulde graunt me the thing that I long for:
9 O that God would begin and smite me, that he would let his hand go and take me cleane away:
10 Then shoulde I haue some comfort, yea I woulde desire him in my payne that he would not spare, for I wil not be against the wordes of the holy one.
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3 Neuerthelesse, I talke with the almightie, and my desire is to commune with God.
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26 He shall pray vnto God, and he will be fauorable vnto him, and he shall see his face with ioy, for he will render vnto man his righteousnesse.
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7 If I complaine of the violence that is done vnto me, I cannot be heard: and if I crye, there is no sentence geuen with me.
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8 But I woulde aske counsell at the Lorde, and talke with God?
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19 If men will speake of strength, lo he is strong: if men will speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?
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20 Are not my dayes fewe? Let him then leaue of fro me, and let me a lone, that I may comfort my selfe a litle,
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2 I knowe it is so of a trueth: For how may a man compared vnto God be iustified?
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9 Will God heare his crye, when trouble commeth vpon him?
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13 Is it not so that there is in me no helpe? & that my substaunce is taken from me?
14 He that is in tribulation, ought to be comforted of his neyghbour: but the feare of the almightie is cleane away.
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2 I will say vnto God: O do not condempne me, but shewe me wherefore thou contendest so with me?
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1 Iudge me O Lorde, and debate my cause with an vnnaturall people: oh delyuer me from the deceiptfull and wicked man.
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4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, & he heareth him: The iust & the vpright is laughed to scorne.
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5 But if ye wyll aduaunce your selues against me, and rebuke me for the shame that is come vpon me:
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13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, & keepe me secret vntyl thy wrath were past, and to appoynt me a time wherein thou mightest remember me.
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15 For though I were righteous, yet might I not geue him one word againe, but mekely submit my selfe to hym as my iudge.
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36 O father, let Iob be well tryed, because he hath aunswered for wicked men:
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3 Doest thou open thyne eyes vpon such one, and bringest me into thy iudgement?
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25 Dyd not I weepe with hym that was in trouble? Had not my soule compassion vpon the poore?
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8 Wylt thou disanul my iudgement? or wylt thou condempne me, that thou mayst be righteous?
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8 He is at hande that iustifieth me, who wyll then go with me to lawe? Let vs stande together, yf there be any that will reason with me? let hym come here foorth to me.
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5 But O that God woulde speake, and open his lippes against thee:
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15 Lo, though he slay me, yet wyl I trust in him: but I wyll reproue myne owne wayes in his sight.
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21 Why doest thou not pardon my trespasses, and take away myne iniquitie? Behold, nowe must I sleepe in the dust, and if thou sekest me to morowe in the morning, I shal not be.
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2 O that I were as I was in the monethes by past, and in the daies when God preserued me:
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16 My face is withered with weeping, & in mine eyes is the shadowe of death.
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1 Of Dauid. Pleade thou my cause O God, with them that striue with me: and fight thou agaynst them that fight against me.
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38 But if case be that my lande crye against me, or that the forowes thereof make any complaynt:
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12 Behold, in this hast thou not done right, I wil make aunswere vnto thee, that God is greater then man.
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12 Heare my prayer O God, and geue eares to my crying, holde not thy peace at my teares: for I am a strauger with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers were.
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23 For God wil not lay vpon man more then he hath sinned, that he should enter into iudgement with him.
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17 Shall man be more iust then God? or shall a man be purer then his maker?