Job 13:3
But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
In Context
2According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you.
4Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.
Cross References
Job 9:14What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?
Job 11:5And I wish that God would speak with thee, and would open his lips to thee,
Job 13:22Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me.
Job 23:4I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints.
Isaiah 1:18And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.
Jeremiah 12:1Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly?
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 →