Job 13:3
However, I would gladly speak to the Almighty; and to argue with God do I desire.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
In Context
2As much as ye know, do I also know: I do not fall short compared with you.
4But ye are inventors of falsehood, physicians of no value are all of you.
Cross References
Job 9:14How much less then could I answer him, and select my words [to contend] with him?
Job 11:5But oh that God would but speak, and open his lips against thee;
Job 13:22Then call thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and do thou reply to me.
Job 23:4I would put in order before him my cause, and my mouth would I fill with arguments.
Isaiah 1:18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins should be as scarlet, they shall become white as the snow; though they should be red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Jeremiah 12:1[Too] righteous art thou, O Lord, that I could plead with thee; yet must I speak of [the principles of] justice with thee: Wherefore is the way of the wicked happy? do all those prosper that deal 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 →