Job 23:4 “I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.”

Job 23:4

I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

World English Bible

I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

American Standard Version

I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.

Geneva Bible 1599

I would pleade the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

Darby Translation

I would order the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments;

Young's Literal Translation

I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill [with] arguments.

Bible in Basic English

I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.

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Cross references

“order”

Job 13:18 Job 37:19 Psalm 43:1 Isaiah 43:26

Job 13:18 · BSB

See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I will be vindicated.

Job 37:19 · BSB

Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.

Psalm 43:1 · BSB

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.

Isaiah 43:26 · BSB

Remind Me, let us argue the matter together. State your case, so that you may be vindicated.

“fill my mouth”

Genesis 18:25–32 Genesis 32:12 Numbers 14:13–19 Psalm 25:11 Exodus 32:12 Exodus 32:13

Genesis 18:25–32 · BSB

Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”

Genesis 32:12 · BSB

But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”

Numbers 14:13–19 · BSB

But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.

Psalm 25:11 · BSB

For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.

Exodus 32:12 · BSB

Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.

Exodus 32:13 · BSB

Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.

5I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.

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