Job 13:3
Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.
Young's Literal Translation
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 fallen more than you.
4And yet, ye [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought — all of you,
Cross References
Job 9:14How much less do I — I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?
Job 11:5And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.
Job 13:22And call Thou, and I — I answer, Or — I speak, and answer Thou me.
Job 23:4I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill [with] arguments.
Isaiah 1:18Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!
Jeremiah 12:1Righteous [art] Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers.
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 →