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Job 13:3
Job 13:3 is verse 3 of Job chapter 13, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.
King James Version
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
World English Bible
“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
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Job 13:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 “Indeed, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood.
2 What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
3 Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.
4 You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
5 If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 13:22Then call me, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You can reply.
Job 9:34Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.
Job 9:35Then I would speak without fear of Him. But as it is, I am on my own.
Job 11:5But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,
Job 23:3If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.
Job 23:4I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job 23:5I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.
Job 23:6Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.
Job 23:7Then 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 9:3If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
Job 9:14How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?
Job 9:15For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
Isaiah 1:18“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
Isaiah 1:19If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
Isaiah 1:20But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
Isaiah 41:21“Present your case,” says the LORD. “Submit your arguments,” says the King of Jacob.
Jeremiah 12:1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
Jeremiah 12:2You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.
Micah 6:2Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s indictment, you enduring foundations of the earth. For the LORD has a case against His people, and He will argue it against Israel: