Job 13:3
But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with God;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
In Context
2What ye know, I know also: I am not inferior to you.
4For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Cross References
Job 9:14How much less shall I answer him, choose out my words [to strive] with him?
Job 11:5But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
Job 13:22Then call, and I will answer; or I will speak, and answer thou me.
Job 23:4I would order the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments;
Isaiah 1:18Come now, let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Jeremiah 12:1Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of [thy] judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?
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 →