Job 13:3
1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.
- KJV
- Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
- WEB
- “Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
- ASV
- Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.
- DARBY
- But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with God;
- BLB
- But I wish to speak to Shaddai, and to reason with God I desire.
- ÅB
- Men jeg vil tale til den Allmektige, og jeg har lyst til å rettferdiggjøre meg for Gud.
- OTB
- Likevel ønsker jeg å tale til Den Allmektige,
Og jeg lengter etter å resonnere med Gud. - B1930
- Men jeg vil tale til den Allmektige, og jeg har lyst til å rettferdiggjøre mig for Gud.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 41:21
Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
Read in contextJob 9:3
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:18–20
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Read in contextJob 13:22
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Read in contextJob 31:35
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Read in contextJob 11:5
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
Read in contextJob 23:3–7
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
Read in contextJob 9:34–35
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
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