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Job 37:19
Job 37:19 is verse 19 of Job chapter 37, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness.
King James Version
Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
World English Bible
Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.
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Job 37:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible
17 You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
18 can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?
19 Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness.
20 Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up ?
21 Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 12:3But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
Job 13:3Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.
Job 13:6Hear now my argument, and listen to the plea of my lips.
Job 26:14Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”
Job 28:20From where then does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell?
Job 28:21It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air.
Job 38:2“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 42:3You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
Psalms 73:16When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight
Psalms 73:17until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end.
Psalms 73:22I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
Psalms 139:6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Proverbs 30:2Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.
Proverbs 30:3I have not learned wisdom, and I have no knowledge of the Holy One.
Proverbs 30:4Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son— surely you know!
1 Corinthians 13:12Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
1 John 3:2Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.