Job 23:4

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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

Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified.

Teach us what we shall say unto him! We cannot order our words by reason of darkness.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; deliver me from the deceitful and unrighteous man.

Put me in remembrance, let us plead together; rehearse thine own cause, that thou mayest be justified.

Fill my mouth

Far be it from thee to do so, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous should be as the wicked far be it from thee! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?

And thou saidst, I will certainly deal well with thee, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, For misfortune he has brought them out, to slay them on the mountains, and to annihilate them from the face of the earth? Turn from the heat of thine anger, and repent of this evil against thy people!

And Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for in thy might thou broughtest up this people from the midst of them;

Ah Lord! what shall I say after Israel have turned their backs before their enemies?

For thy name's sake, O Jehovah, thou wilt indeed pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.

Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolations, and the city that is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee because of our righteousnesses, but because of thy manifold mercies.

General references

And Moses brought their cause before Jehovah.

But oh that +God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?