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

See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case by reason of darkness.

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Set forth your case, that you may be justified.

Fill my mouth

Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"

Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.

Moses said to Yahweh, "Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;

Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!

For your name's sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies' sake.

General references

Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

"Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?