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Job 23:7
Job 23:7 is verse 7 of Job chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
King James Version
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
World English Bible
There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
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Job 23:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.
6 Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.
7 Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
8 If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him.
9 When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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.
Jeremiah 3:5Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”
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?
Job 9:15For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
Romans 3:20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
Romans 3:21But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.
Romans 3:22And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
Romans 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:33Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
Romans 8:34Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.