Job 13:6

Do hearken but to my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

In Context

5Oh, who would grant that ye might keep a profound silences! and it would he accounted unto you as wisdom.

7Will ye speak wrong things for God? and will ye speak for him deceitfully?

Read all of Job 13

Cross References

Judges 9:7And they told it to Yotham; and he went and stood on the top of mount Gerizzim, and he lifted up his voice, and cried; and he said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, so that God may hearken unto you.

Job 21:2Hear, O hear my speech, and let this be wherewith you give consolations.

Job 34:2Hear, O ye wise men, my words; and ye that have knowledge, give ear unto me.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Job 13:6