Job 16:21
Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!
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Referenced Verses
- Job 31:35 : 35 Oh that I had some to heare me! beholde my signe that the Almightie will witnesse for me: though mine aduersary should write a booke against me,
- Job 40:1-5 : 1 (39:34) Moreouer ye Lord spake vnto Iob, & said, 2 (39:35) Is this to learne to striue with the Almightie? he that reprooueth God, let him answere to it. 3 (39:36) Then Iob answered the Lord, saying, 4 (39:37) Beholde, I am vile: what shall I answere thee? I will lay mine hand vpon my mouth. 5 (39:38) Once haue I spoken, but I will answere no more, yea twise, but I will proceede no further.
- Eccl 6:10 : 10 What is that that hath bene? the name thereof is nowe named: and it is knowen that it is man: and he cannot striue with him that is stronger then he.
- Isa 45:9 : 9 Woe be vnto him that striueth with his maker, the potsherd with the potsherds of the earth: shall the clay say to him that facioneth it, What makest thou? or thy worke, It hath none hands?
- Rom 9:20 : 20 But, O man, who art thou which pleadest against God? shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
- Job 9:34-35 : 34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me: 35 Then will I speake, & feare him not: but because I am not so, I holde me still.
- Job 13:3 : 3 But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.
- Job 13:22 : 22 Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.
- Job 23:3-7 : 3 Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place. 4 I would pleade the cause before him, & fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, & would vnderstand what he would say vnto me. 6 Would he plead against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me. 7 There the righteous might reason with him, so I shoulde be deliuered for euer from my Iudge.
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- Job 16:19-202 verses79%
19 For lo, now my witnesse is in the heauen, and my record is on hie.
20 My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.
- Job 23:3-75 verses76%
3 Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place.
4 I would pleade the cause before him, & fill my mouth with arguments.
5 I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, & would vnderstand what he would say vnto me.
6 Would he plead against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me.
7 There the righteous might reason with him, so I shoulde be deliuered for euer from my Iudge.
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22 For the yeeres accounted come, and I shal go the way, whence I shall not returne.
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35 Oh that I had some to heare me! beholde my signe that the Almightie will witnesse for me: though mine aduersary should write a booke against me,
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21 Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.
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19 Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.
- Job 21:3-42 verses74%
3 Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.
4 Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?
- Job 9:32-332 verses73%
32 For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement.
33 Neyther is there any vmpire that might lay his hand vpon vs both.
- Job 6:8-103 verses73%
8 Oh that I might haue my desire, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
9 That is, that God would destroy me: that he would let his hand go, and cut me off.
10 Then should I yet haue comfort, (though I burne with sorowe, let him not spare) because I haue not denyed the wordes of the Holy one.
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3 But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.
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26 He shall pray vnto God, and he will be fauourable vnto him, and he shall see his face with ioy: for he will render vnto ma his righteousnes.
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7 Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.
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8 But I would inquire at God, and turne my talke vnto God:
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19 If we speake of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?
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20 Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,
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2 I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be iustified?
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9 Will God heare his cry, when trouble commeth vpon him?
- Job 6:13-142 verses71%
13 Is it not so, that there is in me no helpe? and that strength is taken from me?
14 He that is in miserie, ought to be comforted of his neighbour: but men haue forsaken the feare of the Almightie.
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2 I will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.
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1 Ivdge me, O God, and defend my cause against the vnmercifull people: deliuer mee from the deceitfull and wicked man.
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4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he heareth him: the iust and the vpright is laughed to scorne.
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5 But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,
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13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, and keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath were past, and wouldest giue me terme, and remember me.
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15 For though I were iust, yet could I not answere, but I would make supplicatio to my Iudge.
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36 I desire that Iob may be tryed, vnto the ende touching the answeres for wicked men.
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3 And yet thou openest thine eyes vpon such one, and causest me to enter into iudgement with thee.
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25 Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?
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8 (40:3) Wilt thou disanul my iudgement? or wilt thou condemne me, that thou mayst be iustified?
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8 Hee is neere that iustifieth mee: who will contend with me? Let vs stande together: who is mine aduersarie? let him come neere to me.
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5 But, oh that God would speake and open his lippes against thee!
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15 Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.
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21 And why doest thou not pardon my trespasse? and take away mine iniquitie? for nowe shall I sleepe in the dust, and if thou seekest me in the morning, I shall not be found.
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2 Oh that I were as in times past, when God preserued me!
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16 My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes,
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1 A Psalme of Dauid. Pleade thou my cause, O Lorde, with them that striue with me: fight thou against them, that fight against me.
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38 If my lande cry against me, or the furrowes thereof complayne together,
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12 Behold, in this hast thou not done right: I will answere thee, that God is greater then man.
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12 Heare my prayer, O Lord, & hearken vnto my cry: keepe not silence at my teares, for I am a strager with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers.
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23 For he will not lay on man so much, that he should enter into iudgement with God.
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17 Shall man be more iust then God? or shall a man be more pure then his maker?