Job 37:20
Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
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Referenced Verses
- Job 6:3 : 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.
- Job 11:7-8 : 7 "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty? 8 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?
- Ps 139:4 : 4 For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
- Matt 12:36-37 : 36 I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."
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