Job 23:3

Geneva Bible (1560)

Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:3 : 3 But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.
  • Job 16:21 : 21 Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!
  • Job 31:35-37 : 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, 36 Woulde not I take it vpon my shoulder, and binde it as a crowne vnto me? 37 I will tell him the nomber of my goings, and goe vnto him as to a prince.
  • 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.
  • Isa 26:8 : 8 Also we, O Lorde, haue waited for thee in the way of thy iudgemets: the desire of our soule is to thy Name, and to the remembrance of thee.
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seeke ye the Lord while he may be found: call ye vpon him while he is neere. 7 Let the wicked forsake his wayes, and the vnrighteous his owne imaginations, and returne vnto the Lord, and he wil haue mercy vpon him: and to our God, for hee is very ready to forgiue.
  • Jer 14:7 : 7 O Lorde, though our iniquities testifie against vs, deale with vs according to thy name: for our rebellions are many, we sinned against thee.
  • 2 Cor 5:19-20 : 19 For God was in Christ, and reconciled the world to himselfe, not imputing their sinnes vnto them, and hath committed to vs the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then are we ambassadours for Christ: as though God did beseeche you through vs, we pray you in Christes steade, that ye be reconciled to God.
  • Heb 4:6 : 6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter thereinto, & they to whom it was first preached, entred not therein for vnbeliefes sake:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 23:4-10
    7 verses
    83%

    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.

    8 Behold, if I go to the East, he is not there: if to the West, yet I can not perceiue him:

    9 If to the North where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he wil hide himselfe in the South, and I cannot beholde him.

    10 But he knoweth my way, & trieth mee, and I shal come forth like the gold.

  • 3 But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.

  • Job 23:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1 Bvt Iob answered and sayd,

    2 Though my talke be this day in bitternes, and my plague greater then my groning,

  • Job 6:8-10
    3 verses
    76%

    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.

  • 8 But I would inquire at God, and turne my talke vnto God:

  • Job 31:35-37
    3 verses
    75%

    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,

    36 Woulde not I take it vpon my shoulder, and binde it as a crowne vnto me?

    37 I will tell him the nomber of my goings, and goe vnto him as to a prince.

  • 23 Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,

  • Job 16:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21 Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!

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

  • 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.

  • Job 29:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2 Oh that I were as in times past, when God preserued me!

    3 When his light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkenesse,

  • 23 But God vnderstandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

  • 2 Oh that my griefe were well weighed, and my miseries were layed together in the balance.

  • 23 Howe many are mine iniquities & sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne.

  • 16 Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,

  • 1 I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation.

  • 5 But, oh that God would speake and open his lippes against thee!

  • 3 Who is hee that hideth counsell without knowledge? therefore haue I spoken that I vnderstood not, euen things too wonderfull for me, and which I knew not.

  • 19 Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.

  • 27 I knowe thy dwelling, yea, thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy furie against me.

  • 16 But I haue not thrust in my selfe for a pastour after thee, neither haue I desired the day of miserie, thou knowest: that which came out of my lips, was right before thee.

  • 20 Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,

  • 28 But I know thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy comming in, and thy fury against me.

  • 4 Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?

  • 23 Surely I knowe that thou wilt bring mee to death, and to the house appoynted for all the liuing.

  • 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.

  • 12 But where is wisdome found? and where is the place of vnderstanding?

  • 7 Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.

  • 19 If we speake of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?

  • 19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? And where is the place of darkenesse,

  • 15 Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.

  • 15 Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.

  • 23 Try mee, O God, and knowe mine heart: prooue me and know my thoughtes,

  • 3 I will fetche my knowledge afarre off, & will attribute rigteousnesse vnto my Maker.

  • 15 For though I were iust, yet could I not answere, but I would make supplicatio to my Iudge.

  • 2 I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be iustified?

  • 13 For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest,

  • 3 And yet thou openest thine eyes vpon such one, and causest me to enter into iudgement with thee.