Job 23:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Would he contend with me with great power? No, he would only pay attention to me.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:21 : 21 Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror.
  • Ps 138:3 : 3 When I cried out for help, you answered me. You made me bold and energized me.
  • Isa 27:4 : 4 I am not angry. I wish I could confront some thorns and briers! Then I would march against them for battle; I would set them all on fire,
  • Isa 27:8 : 8 When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.
  • Ezek 20:33 : 33 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm, and with an outpouring of rage, I will be king over you.
  • Ezek 20:35 : 35 I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
  • 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 But he said to me,“My grace is enough for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” So then, I will boast most gladly about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may reside in me. 10 Therefore I am content with weaknesses, with insults, with troubles, with persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.
  • Job 9:4 : 4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength– who has resisted him and remained safe?
  • Job 9:19 : 19 If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say,‘Who will summon me?’
  • Job 9:33-34 : 33 Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both, 34 who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Job 23:3-5
    3 verses
    83%

    3O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!

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

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

  • Job 23:7
    82%

    7There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • Job 9:19
    79%

    19If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say,‘Who will summon me?’

  • Job 13:19
    77%

    19Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

  • Job 6:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.

    10Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

    11What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

  • Job 9:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

    4He is wise in heart and mighty in strength– who has resisted him and remained safe?

  • Job 32:14
    76%

    14Job has not directed his words to me, and so I will not reply to him with your arguments.

  • Job 40:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

    9Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

  • Job 9:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14The Impossibility of Facing God in Court“How much less, then, can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him!

    15Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.

  • Job 9:32
    75%

    32For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

  • Job 6:13
    75%

    13Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?

  • Job 22:4
    74%

    4Is it because of your piety that he rebukes you and goes to judgment with you?

  • Job 10:2
    74%

    2I will say to God,‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’

  • Job 13:3
    74%

    3But I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

  • Job 33:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12Now in this, you are not right– I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.

    13Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?

  • Isa 27:5
    74%

    5unless they became my subjects and made peace with me; let them make peace with me.

  • Job 9:34-35
    2 verses
    74%

    34who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.

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

  • Job 19:5
    74%

    5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,

  • Isa 50:8
    73%

    8The one who vindicates me is close by. Who dares to argue with me? Let us confront each other! Who is my accuser? Let him challenge me!

  • Job 36:19
    73%

    19Would your wealth sustain you, so that you would not be in distress, even all your mighty efforts?

  • Job 6:23
    73%

    23Or‘Deliver me from the enemy’s power, and from the hand of tyrants ransom me’?

  • Job 40:2
    73%

    2“Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”

  • Job 13:15
    73%

    15Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!

  • Job 34:23
    73%

    23For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.

  • Job 16:21
    73%

    21and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.

  • Job 41:10
    72%

    10Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it?

  • Job 23:16
    72%

    16Indeed, God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

  • Job 27:10
    72%

    10Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call out to God at all times?

  • Job 15:25
    72%

    25for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

  • Job 24:22
    72%

    22But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

  • Job 5:8
    72%

    8Blessings for the One Who Seeks God“But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would set forth my case.

  • Job 13:22
    72%

    22Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you respond to me.

  • Job 37:23
    71%

    23As for the Almighty, we cannot attain to him! He is great in power, but justice and abundant righteousness he does not oppress.

  • Job 31:36-37
    2 verses
    71%

    36Surely I would wear it proudly on my shoulder, I would bind it on me like a crown;

    37I would give him an accounting of my steps; like a prince I would approach him.

  • Job 21:4
    71%

    4Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?

  • Job 23:14
    71%

    14For he fulfills his decree against me, and many such things are his plans.

  • Job 12:13
    71%

    13“With God are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.

  • Job 26:1
    71%

    1Job’s Reply to Bildad Then Job replied:

  • Job 31:14
    71%

    14then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?

  • Job 31:23
    71%

    23For the calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I was powerless.