Job 23:5
I should know the words which he might answer me, and understand what he might say unto me.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
In Context
4I would put in order before him my cause, and my mouth would I fill with arguments.
6Would he with his power contend against me? he would truly not lay such doings to my charge.
Cross References
Job 10:2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; let me know for what cause thou contendest against me.
Job 42:2I acknowledge that thou art able to do every thing, and that no deep plan of thine can be restrained.
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 →