Job 23:7
There the righteous might reason with him, so I shoulde be deliuered for euer from my Iudge.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
In Context
6Would he plead against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me.
8Behold, if I go to the East, he is not there: if to the West, yet I can not perceiue him:
Cross References
Job 9:15For though I were iust, yet could I not answere, but I would make supplication to my Iudge.
Isaiah 1:18Come nowe, and let vs reason together, sayth the Lord: though your sinnes were as crimsin, they shalbe made white as snowe: though they were red like skarlet, they shalbe as wooll.
Jeremiah 12:1O Lord, if I dispute with thee, thou art righteous: yet let mee talke with thee of thy iudgements: wherefore doeth the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they in wealth that rebelliously transgresse?
Romans 8:1Now then there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Iesus, which walke not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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 →