Job 31:35

O that there were one who would hear me! Behold my signature! let the Almighty answer me. And let mine adversary write down his charge!

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In The King James Version

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

In Context

34Then let me be confounded before the great multitude! Let the contempt of families cover me with shame! Yea, let me keep silence! let me never appear abroad!

36Truly I would wear it upon my shoulder; I would bind it upon me as a crown.

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Cross References

Job 13:3But O that I might speak with the Almighty! O that I might reason with God!

Job 13:21Let not thy hand be heavy upon me, And let not thy terrors make me afraid:

Job 13:24Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, And account me as thine enemy?

Job 19:7Behold, I complain of wrong, but receive no answer; I cry aloud, but obtain no justice.

Job 19:23O that my words were now written! O that they were marked down in a scroll!

Job 27:7May mine enemy be as the wicked, And he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous!

Matthew Henry on Job 31:34-40

Job's Protestation of His Integrity. ( b. c. 1520.) 33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: 34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door? 35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. 36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. 37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as… Read the whole commentary →

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