Verse 5

And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.

Referenced Verses

• Job 38:1-2 : 1 And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: -- 2 Who `is' this -- darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?
• Job 40:1-5 : 1 And Jehovah doth answer Job, and saith: -- 2 Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it. 3 And Job answereth Jehovah, and saith: -- 4 Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth. 5 Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.
• Job 40:8 : 8 Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?
• Job 42:7 : 7 And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, `Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.
• Job 23:3-7 : 3 O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat, 4 I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill `with' arguments. 5 I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me. 6 In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth `it' in me. 7 There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.
• Job 31:35 : 35 Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.
• Job 33:6-9 : 6 Lo, I `am', according to thy word, for God, From the clay I -- I also, have been formed. 7 Lo, my terror doth not frighten thee, And my burden on thee is not heavy. 8 Surely -- thou hast said in mine ears, And the sounds of words I hear: 9 `Pure `am' I, without transgression, Innocent `am' I, and I have no iniquity. 10 Lo, occasions against me He doth find, He doth reckon me for an enemy to Him, 11 He doth put in the stocks my feet, He doth watch all my paths.' 12 Lo, `in' this thou hast not been righteous, I answer thee, that greater is God than man. 13 Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When `for' all His matters He answereth not? 14 For once doth God speak, and twice, (He doth not behold it.) 15 In a dream -- a vision of night, In the falling of deep sleep on men, In slumberings on a bed. 16 Then He uncovereth the ear of men, And for their instruction sealeth: 17 To turn aside man `from' doing, And pride from man He concealeth. 18 He keepeth back his soul from corruption, And his life from passing away by a dart.