Job 23:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

There the righteous might dispute with him, so I would be delivered forever from my judge.

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  • Job 13:3 : 3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
  • Isa 1:18 : 18 Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
  • Jer 3:5 : 5 Will he hold onto his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done evil things as you could.
  • Jer 12:1 : 1 Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal very treacherously?
  • Rom 3:19-22 : 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference:
  • Rom 8:1 : 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
  • Rom 8:33-34 : 33 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
  • Job 9:15 : 15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would plead with my Judge.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 23:3-6
    4 verses
    82%

    3Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!

    4I would present my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

    5I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

    6Will he contend with me in his great power? No; but he would strengthen me.

  • Job 13:18-19
    2 verses
    79%

    18Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be justified.

    19Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I keep silent, I shall die.

  • 8Will you also annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

  • Job 23:8-9
    2 verses
    78%

    8Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive him.

    9On the left hand where he works, but I cannot behold him; he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

  • Job 9:19-20
    2 verses
    78%

    19If I speak of strength, lo, He is mighty: and if of judgment, who shall set a time for me to plead?

    20If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

  • 15Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would plead with my Judge.

  • 32For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, and we should come together in judgment.

  • 5For Job has said, I am righteous; and God has taken away my justice.

  • 8He is near that justifies me; who will contend with me? Let us stand together: who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

  • 7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

  • 1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

  • 2I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why You contend with me.

  • Job 16:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!

    22When a few years come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

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

  • Job 27:5-7
    3 verses
    75%

    5God forbid that I should justify you: until I die I will not renounce my integrity.

    6My righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go; my heart shall not reproach me as long as I live.

    7Let my enemy be like the wicked, and he who rises up against me like the unrighteous.

  • 21And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

  • 17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

  • 7You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of Your hand.

  • 24Judge me, O LORD my God, according to your righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

  • 1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal very treacherously?

  • 23For He will not lay upon man more than right, that he should enter into judgment with God.

  • 10My defense is of God, who saves the upright in heart.

  • 2And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living shall be justified.

  • 10Then I should still have comfort; yes, I would harden myself in sorrow. Let him not spare, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

  • 3And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

  • 9I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me; he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

  • 23Or Deliver me from the enemy's hand? Or Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?

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    8The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me.

  • 15Though he slays me, yet will I trust in him; but I will defend my own ways before him.

  • 2Let my judgment come forth from your presence; let your eyes see what is right.

  • 15The LORD therefore be judge and judge between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.

  • 2As God lives, who has taken away my justice, and the Almighty, who has troubled my soul;

  • 28This also would be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied the God above.

  • 20Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

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

  • 4As for me, is my complaint to a man? And if it were, why should my spirit not be troubled?

  • Ps 7:3-4
    2 verses
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    3O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there is iniquity in my hands;

    4If I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me; (yes, I have delivered him who without cause is my enemy:)

  • 29Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yes, return again, my righteousness is in it.

  • 9I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

  • 3Does God pervert judgment, or does the Almighty pervert justice?