Job 23:7
There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
In Context
6Would he plead against me with [his] great power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me.
8Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him;
Cross References
Job 9:15Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.
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?
Romans 8:1[There is] then now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.
Matthew Henry on Job 23:2-8
The Reply of Job to Eliphaz; Job Appeals from Man to God. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. 6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. 7 There the… Read the whole commentary →