Job 23:5

Geneva Bible (1560)

I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, & would vnderstand what he would say vnto me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 10:2 : 2 I will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.
  • Job 13:22-23 : 22 Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me. 23 Howe many are mine iniquities & sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne.
  • Job 42:2-6 : 2 I knowe that thou canst doe all things, and that there is no thought hidde from 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. 4 Heare, I beseech thee, and I will speake: I will demaunde of thee, & declare thou vnto me. 5 I haue heard of thee by the hearing of the eare, but now mine eye seeth thee. 6 Therefore I abhorre my selfe, and repent in dust and ashes.
  • 1 Cor 4:3-4 : 3 As touching me, I passe very litle to be iudged of you, or of mans iudgement: no, I iudge not mine owne selfe. 4 For I know nothing by my selfe, yet am I not thereby iustified: but he that iudgeth me, is the Lord.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 23:3-4
    2 verses
    87%

    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.

  • Job 23:6-7
    2 verses
    83%

    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.

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

  • Job 42:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

    4 Heare, I beseech thee, and I will speake: I will demaunde of thee, & declare thou vnto me.

  • Job 31:35-37
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

  • 22 Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.

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

  • 5 If thou canst giue me answere, prepare thy selfe and stand before me.

  • Job 33:31-32
    2 verses
    77%

    31 Marke well, O Iob, and heare me: keepe silence, and I will speake.

    32 If there be matter, answere me, and speak: for I desire to iustifie thee.

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

  • Job 9:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14 Howe much lesse shall I answere him? or howe should I finde out my words with him?

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

  • Job 13:18-19
    2 verses
    76%

    18 Beholde nowe: if I prepare me to iudgement, I knowe that I shalbe iustified.

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

  • 1 Bvt Iob answered and sayd,

  • 14 Yet hath he not directed his words to me, neyther will I answere him by your wordes.

  • 1 Wherefore, Iob, I pray thee, heare my talke and hearken vnto all my wordes.

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

  • 35 Then will I speake, & feare him not: but because I am not so, I holde me still.

  • 6 Nowe heare my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments of my lips.

  • 3 I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.

  • 20 Therefore will I speake, that I may take breath: I will open my lippes, and will answere.

  • 14 What then shal I do when God standeth vp? & when he shal visit me, what shal I answere?

  • 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 Oh that I might haue my desire, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

  • 32 For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement.

  • 1 Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,

  • 24 Teach me, and I wil hold my tongue: & cause me to vnderstande, wherein I haue erred.

  • 15 Thou shalt call me, and I shall answere thee: thou louest the worke of thine own hands.

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

  • 36 I desire that Iob may be tryed, vnto the ende touching the answeres for wicked men.

  • 11 Behold, I did waite vpon your wordes, and hearkened vnto your knowledge, whiles you sought out reasons.

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

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

  • 20 Shall it be told him when I speake? Or shall man speake when he shalbe destroyed?

  • 5 But I woulde strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips should asswage your sorowe.

  • 1 I will stand vpon my watch, and set me vpon the towre, and wil looke and see what he would say vnto mee, and what I shall answere to him that rebuketh me.

  • 1 Bvt Iob answered, and said,

  • 2 I will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.

  • 3 (39:36) Then Iob answered the Lord, saying,

  • 8 Doubtles thou hast spoken in mine eares, and I haue heard the voyce of thy wordes.

  • 1 Bvt Iob answered, and said,

  • 13 Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.

  • 1 Then Iob answered the Lord, and sayd,