Job 23:5

Bishops' Bible (1568)

I woulde knowe what aunswere he woulde geue me, and vnderstande what he woulde say vnto me.

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  • Job 10:2 : 2 I will say vnto God: O do not condempne me, but shewe me wherefore thou contendest so with me?
  • Job 13:22-23 : 22 Then call, and I wyll aunswere: or let me speake, and geue me then an aunswere. 23 How many are my misdeedes and sinnes? let me knowe my transgressions and offences.
  • Job 42:2-6 : 2 I know that thou hast power ouer all thinges, and that there is no thought hid vnto thee. 3 For who can keepe his owne counsaile so secrete but it shalbe knowen? Therefore haue I spoken that I vnderstoode not, euen the thinges that are to wonderfull for me, and passe myne vnderstanding. 4 O hearken thou vnto me also, and let me speake: aunswere vnto the thing that I wyll aske thee. 5 I haue heard of thee by the hearing of the eare, but nowe myne eye seeth thee. 6 Wherefore I geue myne owne selfe the blame, and take repentaunce in the dust and asshes.
  • 1 Cor 4:3-4 : 3 With me it is but a very small thyng that I shoulde be iudged of you, either of mans iudgement: No, I iudge not mine owne selfe. 4 For I knowe nothing by my selfe, yet am I not thereby iustified: but he that iudgeth me is the Lorde.

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  • Job 23:3-4
    2 verses
    87%

    3O that I might know him, and finde him, and that I might come before his seate:

    4I woulde pleade my cause before hym, and fill my mouth with argumentes:

  • Job 23:6-7
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    83%

    6Will he pleade against me with his great power? No, but he will make me the stronger.

    7There the righteous might dispute with him, so shoulde I be deliuered for euer from my iudge.

  • 3Neuerthelesse, I talke with the almightie, and my desire is to commune with God.

  • Job 42:3-4
    2 verses
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    3For who can keepe his owne counsaile so secrete but it shalbe knowen? Therefore haue I spoken that I vnderstoode not, euen the thinges that are to wonderfull for me, and passe myne vnderstanding.

    4O hearken thou vnto me also, and let me speake: aunswere vnto the thing that I wyll aske thee.

  • Job 31:35-37
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    35O 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.

    36Yet will I take it vpon my shoulder, & as a garlande binde it about my head.

    37I will tell hym the number of my goinges, & go vnto him as to a prince.

  • 22Then call, and I wyll aunswere: or let me speake, and geue me then an aunswere.

  • 8But I woulde aske counsell at the Lorde, and talke with God?

  • 5If thou canst then geue me aunswere, prepare thy selfe and stande before me face to face.

  • Job 33:31-32
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    77%

    31Marke wel O Iob, and heare me: hold thee still, and I will speake.

    32But if thou hast any thing to say, then aunswere me, and speake: for I desire to iustifie thee.

  • 5But O that God woulde speake, and open his lippes against thee:

  • Job 9:14-15
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    76%

    14Howe much lesse shall I aunswere him? or howe shoulde I finde out my wordes with him?

    15For though I were righteous, yet might I not geue him one word againe, but mekely submit my selfe to hym as my iudge.

  • Job 13:18-19
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    76%

    18Beholde, now haue I prepared my iudgement, and knowe that I shalbe founde righteous.

    19What is he that wyll go to lawe with me? if I now holde my tongue I dye.

  • 1Iob aunswered, & said:

  • 14He hath not spoken vnto me, and I wil not aunswere hym as ye haue done.

  • 1Wherefore heare my wordes O Iob, and hearken vnto all that I will say:

  • 34Let men of vnderstanding tell me, and let a wyse man hearken vnto me.

  • 35And then shall I aunswere hym without any feare: but because I am not so, I holde me still.

  • 6Now heare my reasoning, and ponder the argument of my lippes.

  • 3I haue sufficiently heard the checking of my reproofe, therefore the spirite of myne vnderstanding causeth me to aunswere.

  • 20Therfore will I speake, that I may haue a bent: I will open my lippes, and make aunswere.

  • 14When God will sit in iudgement, what shall I do? & when he will visite me, what aunswere shal I geue him?

  • 10Then 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.

  • 8O that I might haue my desire, and that God woulde graunt me the thing that I long for:

  • 32For he that I must geue aunswere vnto, and with whom I go to the lawe, is not a man as I am:

  • 1Iob aunswered, and saide:

  • 24Teache me, and I will hold my tong: and wherin I haue erred; cause me to vnderstande.

  • 15Thou shalt call me and I shall aunswere thee, despise not thou the worke of thyne owne handes.

  • 21O that a body might pleate with God, as one man doth with an other:

  • 36O father, let Iob be well tryed, because he hath aunswered for wicked men:

  • 11For when I had wayted till ye made an end of your talking, and hearde your wysdome, what argumentes ye made in your communication,

  • 19If men will speake of strength, lo he is strong: if men will speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?

  • 4Is it for mans sake that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, shoulde not my spirite then be in sore trouble?

  • 20Shall it be tolde him what I saye? Shall man speake when he shalbe destroyed?

  • 5I shoulde comfort you with my mouth, & releasse your paine with the talking of my lippes.

  • 1I will stande vpon my watche, and set me vpon the towre, & will loke, and see what he will say vnto me, and what I shall aunswere to him that rebuketh me.

  • 1But Iob aunswered, and sayde:

  • 2I will say vnto God: O do not condempne me, but shewe me wherefore thou contendest so with me?

  • 3Then Iob aunswered the Lorde, saying:

  • 8Now hast thou spoken in myne eares, & I haue heard the voyce of thy wordes:

  • 1Iob aunswered, and saide:

  • 13Holde your tongues for my sake, that I also may speake, and my sorowe shalbe the lesse.

  • 1Then Iob aunswered the Lord, and saide: