Job 23:4
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job 23:4 in other translations
| BSB | I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments. |
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| WEB | I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. |
| ASV | I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments. |
| YLT | I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill with arguments. |
| DARBY | I would order the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments; |
| BBE | I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments. |
| Webster | I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. |
What does Job 23:4 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 23:1-7
Job appeals from his friends to the just judgement of God. He wants to have his cause tried quickly. Blessed be God, we may know where to find him. He is in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself; and upon a mercy-seat, waiting to be gracious. Thither the sinner may go; and there the believer may order his cause before Him, with arguments taken from his promises, his covenant, and his glory. A patient waiting…
Job 23:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 23:4
- Job 13:18
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
- Daniel 9:18-19
O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies. O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
- Job 37:19
Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
- Genesis 18:25-32
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. …
- Joshua 7:8-9
O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies! For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
- Genesis 32:12
And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
- Exodus 32:12-13
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
- Isaiah 43:26
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
- Psalms 43:1
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
- Numbers 14:13-19
And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. …
- Psalms 25:11
For thy name’s sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
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Context
- Job 23:3
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
- Job 23:4
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
- Job 23:5
I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
Job 23:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Ordenaría juicio delante de él, y henchiría mi boca de argumentos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | J’exposerais ma juste cause devant lui, et je remplirais ma bouche d’arguments; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ich würde meine Rechtssache vor ihm darlegen, und meinen Mund mit Beweisgründen füllen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ponam coram eo judicium, et os meum replebo increpationibus: |