Job 16:21

Geneva Bible (1560)

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.

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    22For the yeeres accounted come, and I shal go the way, whence I shall not returne.

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