Job 11:5

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Job 11:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?

4 You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’

5 But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,

6 and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.

7 Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?

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Job 23:3

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

Job 23:4

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

Job 23:5

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

Job 23:6

Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.

Job 23:7

Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

Job 31:35

(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.

Job 33:6

I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.

Job 33:7

Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.

Job 33:8

Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:

Job 33:9

‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.

Job 33:10

Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.

Job 33:11

He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’

Job 33:12

Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

Job 33:13

Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

Job 33:14

For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.

Job 33:15

In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,

Job 33:16

He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings

Job 33:17

to turn a man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride,

Job 33:18

to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.

Job 38:1

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

Job 38:2

“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?

Job 40:1

And the LORD said to Job:

Job 40:2

“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”

Job 40:3

Then Job answered the LORD:

Job 40:4

“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.

Job 40:5

I have spoken once, but I have no answer— twice, but I have nothing to add.”

Job 40:8

Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?

Job 42:7

After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.