Job 13:3
Yet I speak for the Mighty One, || And I delight to argue for God.
Literal Standard Version
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 have known—also I. I am not more fallen than you.
4And yet, you [are] forgers of falsehood, || Physicians of nothing—all of you,
Cross References
Job 9:14How much less do I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?
Job 11:5And yet, O that God had spoken! And opens His lips with you.
Job 13:22And You call, and I answer, || Or—I speak, and You answer me.
Job 23:4I arrange the cause before Him, || And fill my mouth [with] arguments.
Isaiah 1:18Now come, and we settle this,” says YHWH, “If your sins are as scarlet, they will be white as snow, || If they are red as crimson, they will be as wool!
Jeremiah 12:1You [are] righteous, O YHWH, || When I plead toward You, || Only, let me speak judgments with You, || Why did the way of the wicked prosper? All treacherous dealers have been at rest.
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 →