Job 23:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Job 23:4

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

Order

Fill my mouth

Daniel 9:18

General references

Numbers 27:5

Job 11:5

Job 38:2

Bible References

Order

See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right.

Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.

Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.

Fill my mouth

Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.

Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil fate, to put them to death on the mountains, cutting them off from the earth? Let your wrath be turned away from them, and send not this evil on your people.

And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out from among them;

O Lord, what am I to say now that Israel have given way before their attackers?

Because of your name, O Lord, let me have forgiveness for my sin, which is very great.

O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies.

General references

So Moses put their cause before the Lord.

But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;

Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?