Job 16:21

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Though a body might pleate wt God, as one man doth with another,

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 31:35 : 35 O that I had one which wolde heare me. Lo, this is my cause. Let ye Allmightie geue me answere: & let him that is my cotrary party, sue me with a lybell.
  • Job 40:1-5 : 1 Morouer, God spake vnto Iob and sayde: 2 Can he that stryueth with the Allmightie, be at rest? Shulde not he which disputeth with God, geue him an answere? 3 Iob answered the LORDE, sayenge: 4 Beholde, I am to vyle a personne, to answere the, therfore will I laye my hande vpon my mouth. 5 Once or twyse haue I spoken, but I will saye nomore.
  • Eccl 6:10 : 10 What is more excellent then man? yet can he not in the lawe get the victory of him that is mightier the he:
  • Isa 45:9 : 9 Wo be vnto him that chydeth wt his maker, the potsherde with the potter. Saieth ye claye to the potter: What makest thou? or, yi worke serueth for nothige?
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 O thou man, who art thou, that disputest with God? Sayeth the worke to his workman: Why hast thou made me on this fashion?
  • Job 9:34-35 : 34 Let him take his rod awaye fro me, yee let him make me nomore afrayed of him, 35 and then shal I answere him without eny feare. For as longe as I am in soch fearfulnesse, I can make no answere: And why?
  • Job 13:3 : 3 Neuerthelesse I am purposed to talke with the Allmightie, and my desyre is to comon with God.
  • Job 13:22 : 22 And then sende for me to the lawe, yt I maye answere for my self: or els, let me speake, and geue thou the answere.
  • Job 23:3-7 : 3 O that I might se him & fynde him: O that I might come before his seate, 4 to pleate my cause before him, and to fyll my mouth with argumentes: 5 That I might knowe, what answere he wolde geue me: & that I might vnderstonde, what he wolde saye vnto me. 6 Wil he pleate agaynst me with his greate power & strength, or wyll he leane him self vtterly vpon me? 7 Oh no, let him not do so with me. But let hym geue me like power to go to lawe, then am I sure to wynne my matter.

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