Job 23:7
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
In Context
6Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
8Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
Cross References
Job 9:15Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
Isaiah 1:18Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Jeremiah 12:1Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Wherefore does the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Romans 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (o. pneuma)
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 →