Job 13:3
Yet I speak this way to the Almighty, and I desire to argue with God,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
In Context
2In conformity with your knowledge, I also know. I am not inferior to you.
4having first shown that you fabricate lies and cultivate perverse teachings.
Cross References
Job 9:14what am I then, that I should answer him and exchange words with him?
Job 11:5Yet I wish that God would speak with you, and would open his lips to you,
Job 13:22Call me, and I will answer you, or else I will speak, and you can answer me.
Job 23:4I would place judgment before his eye, and my mouth would fill with criticism,
Isaiah 1:18And then approach and accuse me, says the Lord. Then, if your sins are like scarlet, they shall be made white like snow; and if they are red like vermillion, they shall become white like wool.
Jeremiah 12:1Certainly, O Lord, you are just. But if I may contend with you, while still speaking what is just to you: Why does the way of the impious prosper? Why is it well with all those who transgress and act unfairly?
Matthew Henry on Job 13:2-13
Job's Reply to Zophar. ( b. c. 1520.) 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. 3 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. 6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. 7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for… Read the whole commentary →