Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:21-22 : 21 Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror. 22 Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you respond to me.
  • Job 19:23-24 : 23 Job’s Assurance of Vindication“O that my words were written down, O that they were written on a scroll, 24 that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever!
  • 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 27:7 : 7 The Condition of the Wicked“May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unrighteous.
  • Job 30:28 : 28 I go about blackened, but not by the sun; in the assembly I stand up and cry for help.
  • Job 33:6 : 6 Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.
  • Job 33:10-11 : 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.’
  • Job 35:14 : 14 How much less, then, when you say that you do not perceive him, that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!
  • Job 38:1-3 : 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? 3 Get ready for a difficult task like a man; I will question you and you will inform me!
  • Job 40:4-5 : 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.”
  • Ps 26:1 : 1 By David. Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have integrity, and I trust in the LORD without wavering.
  • Matt 5:25 : 25 Reach agreement quickly with your accuser while on the way to court, or he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the warden, and you will be thrown into prison.
  • Job 13:24 : 24 Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?
  • Job 17:3 : 3 Set my pledge beside you. Who else will put up security for me?
  • Job 19:7 : 7 Job’s Abandonment and Affliction“If I cry out,‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.
  • Job 19:11 : 11 Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies.
  • Job 13:3 : 3 But I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.