Job 13:6
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
In Context
5O that all of you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
7Will all of you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
Cross References
Judges 9:7And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, all of you men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
Job 21:2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
Job 34:2Hear my words, O all of you wise men; and give ear unto me, all of you that have knowledge.
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 →