Job 23:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

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  • Job 13:18 : 18 Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified.
  • Job 37:19 : 19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; [for] we cannot order [our speech] by reason of darkness.
  • Ps 25:11 : 11 For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it [is] great.
  • Ps 43:1 : 1 ¶ Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
  • Isa 43:26 : 26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
  • Dan 9:18-19 : 18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies. 19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
  • Gen 18:25-32 : 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? 26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. 27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and ashes: 28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy [it]. 29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do [it] for forty's sake. 30 And he said [unto him], Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do [it], if I find thirty there. 31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for twenty's sake. 32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for ten's sake.
  • Gen 32:12 : 12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
  • Exod 32:12-13 : 12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit [it] for ever.
  • Num 14:13-19 : 13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear [it], (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) 14 And they will tell [it] to the inhabitants of this land: [for] they have heard that thou LORD [art] among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and [that] thy cloud standeth over them, and [that] thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. 15 Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, 16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. 17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, 18 The LORD [is] longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation]. 19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
  • Josh 7:8-9 : 8 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies! 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear [of it], and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 23:5-7
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    5I would know the words [which] he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

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

    7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

  • 3Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat!

  • 3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

  • 8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

  • Job 13:18-19
    2 verses
    77%

    18Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified.

    19Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

  • 5If thou canst answer me, set [thy words] in order before me, stand up.

  • Job 31:35-37
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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.

    36Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, [and] bind it [as] a crown to me.

    37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

  • 4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

  • 6Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

  • Job 21:3-4
    2 verses
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    3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

    4As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?

  • 5But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

  • Job 9:14-15
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    14¶ How much less shall I answer him, [and] choose out my words [to reason] with him?

    15Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer, [but] I would make supplication to my judge.

  • 32If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

  • 19If [I speak] of strength, lo, [he is] strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time [to plead]?

  • 21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbour!

  • Job 16:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4I also could speak as ye [do]: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

    5[But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage [your grief].

  • 20I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.

  • Job 6:8-10
    3 verses
    71%

    8¶ Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!

    9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

    10Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 13:13-15
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    71%

    13¶ Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will].

    14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

    15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

  • 2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

  • 5If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach:

  • 1¶ Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.

  • 22Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

  • 1¶ Then Job answered and said,

  • 8Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

  • Job 36:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that [I have] yet to speak on God's behalf.

    3I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

  • 35[Then] would I speak, and not fear him; but [it is] not so with me.

  • 23¶ Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

  • 14Now he hath not directed [his] words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.

  • 17[I said], I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.

  • 36My desire [is that] Job may be tried unto the end because of [his] answers for wicked men.

  • 24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

  • 32For [he is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together in judgment.

  • 14For he performeth [the thing that is] appointed for me: and many such [things are] with him.

  • 2I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.

  • 8[He is] near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who [is] mine adversary? let him come near to me.

  • 14What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?