Job 11:5

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But if only God would speak, if only he would open his lips against you,

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  • Job 38:1-2 : 1 VI. The Divine Speeches(38:1-42:6)The Lord’s First Speech Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: 2 “Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?
  • Job 40:1-5 : 1 Job’s Reply to God’s Challenge Then the LORD answered Job: 2 “Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!” 3 Then Job answered the LORD: 4 “Indeed, I am completely unworthy– how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself. 5 I have spoken once, but I cannot answer; twice, but I will say no more.”
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
  • Job 42:7 : 7 After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite,“My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.
  • Job 23:3-7 : 3 O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence! 4 I would lay out my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know with what words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me. 6 Would he contend with me with great power? No, he would only pay attention to me. 7 There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.
  • Job 31:35 : 35 Job’s Appeal“If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature– let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written.
  • Job 33:6-9 : 6 Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay. 7 Therefore no fear of me should terrify you, nor should my pressure be heavy on you. 8 Elihu Rejects Job’s Plea of Innocence“Indeed, you have said in my hearing(I heard the sound of the words!): 9 ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity. 10 Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy! 11 He puts my feet in shackles; he watches closely all my paths.’ 12 Now in this, you are not right– I answer you, for God is greater than a human being. 13 Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words? 14 Elihu Disagrees With Job’s View of God“For God speaks, the first time in one way, the second time in another, though a person does not perceive it. 15 In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds. 16 Then he gives a revelation to people, and terrifies them with warnings, 17 to turn a person from his sin, and to cover a person’s pride. 18 He spares a person’s life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.

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