Job 13:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 41:21 : 21 ¶ Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong [reasons], saith the King of Jacob.
  • Job 9:3 : 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
  • Job 13:22 : 22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
  • Job 31:35 : 35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] mine adversary had written a book.
  • Isa 1:18-20 : 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: 20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].
  • Job 23:3-7 : 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat! 4 I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words [which] he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. 6 Will he plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he would put [strength] in me. 7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
  • Job 9:14-15 : 14 ¶ How much less shall I answer him, [and] choose out my words [to reason] with him? 15 Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer, [but] I would make supplication to my judge.
  • Job 9:34-35 : 34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: 35 [Then] would I speak, and not fear him; but [it is] not so with me.
  • Job 11:5 : 5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
  • Job 13:15 : 15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
  • Jer 12:1-2 : 1 ¶ Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously? 2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou [art] near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
  • Mic 6:2 : 2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.

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    6Will he plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he would put [strength] in me.

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    35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] mine adversary had written a book.

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