the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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Job 13:18
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Now then, I have prepared my case;I know that I am right.
See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.
See, I have prepared my case, and I know I will be proved right.
See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I am right.
"Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I will be vindicated.
"Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I will be vindicated.
See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
Beholde nowe: if I prepare me to iudgement, I knowe that I shalbe iustified.
Behold now, I have arranged my case for justice;I know that I will be declared righteous.
Behold, now that I have prepared my case, I know that I will be vindicated.
I have prepared my case well, and I am certain to win.
Here, now, I have prepared my case; I know I am in the right.
Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified.
I am ready now to defend myself. I will carefully present my arguments. I know I will be shown to be right.
Behold now, I am also pleading my cause; and I know that I am innocent.
I am ready to state my case, because I know I am in the right.
Please look, I have prepared my case; I know that I myself will be vindicated.
Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I shall be justified.
Beholde, though sentence were geuen vpon me, I am sure to be knowne for vngilty.
Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I am righteous.
See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right.
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Behold now, I haue ordered my cause, I know that I shall be iustified.
Beholde, now haue I prepared my iudgement, and knowe that I shalbe founde righteous.
Behold, I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just.
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I am righteous.
Yf Y schal be demed, Y woot that Y schal be foundun iust.
Look now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I am righteous.
Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified.
See now, I have prepared my case, I know that I shall be vindicated.
I have prepared my case; I will be proved innocent.
See, I am ready to tell everything, and all will know I am right.
I have indeed prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.
Lo! I pray you, I have set forth in order a plea, I know that, I, shall be found right.
If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.
Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.
Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.
"Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I will be vindicated.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I have ordered: Job 16:21, Job 23:4, Job 40:7
I know: Job 9:2, Job 9:3, Job 9:20, Job 40:7, Job 40:8, Isaiah 43:26, Romans 8:33, Romans 8:34, 2 Corinthians 1:12
Reciprocal: Job 9:32 - we should Job 13:15 - he slay me
Cross-References
Noah built an altar to God . He selected clean animals and birds from every species and offered them as burnt offerings on the altar. God smelled the sweet fragrance and thought to himself, "I'll never again curse the ground because of people. I know they have this bent toward evil from an early age, but I'll never again kill off everything living as I've just done.
Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have fighting between us, between your shepherds and my shepherds. After all, we're family. Look around. Isn't there plenty of land out there? Let's separate. If you go left, I'll go right; if you go right, I'll go left."
A fugitive came and reported to Abram the Hebrew. Abram was living at the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and Aner. They were allies of Abram. When Abram heard that his nephew had been taken prisoner, he lined up his servants, all of them born in his household—there were 318 of them—and chased after the captors all the way to Dan. Abram and his men split into small groups and attacked by night. They chased them as far as Hobah, just north of Damascus. They recovered all the plunder along with nephew Lot and his possessions, including the women and the people.
God appeared to Abraham at the Oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent. It was the hottest part of the day. He looked up and saw three men standing. He ran from his tent to greet them and bowed before them.
Finally, Jacob made it back home to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath Arba, present-day Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived. Isaac was now 180 years old. Isaac breathed his last and died—an old man full of years. He was buried with his family by his sons Esau and Jacob.
He said, "Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are doing and bring me back a report." He sent him off from the valley of Hebron to Shechem.
Joshua blessed him. He gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance. Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite still today, because he gave himself totally to God , the God of Israel.
Since prayer is at the bottom of all this, what I want mostly is for men to pray—not shaking angry fists at enemies but raising holy hands to God. And I want women to get in there with the men in humility before God, not primping before a mirror or chasing the latest fashions but doing something beautiful for God and becoming beautiful doing it.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause,.... Or "judgment" t; that is, he had looked over his cause afresh, had reviewed the state of his case, had considered it in every light, had drawn a plan of it, had digested it in a proper manner, and had arranged his reasons and arguments in vindication of himself in a regular form; and had them at hand, and could readily and easily come at them on occasion, to vindicate himself; and upon the whole could say, in the strongest, manner, and could draw this conclusion,
I know that I shall be justified; which, though it may primarily respect the case in dispute between him and his friends, and the charge of wickedness and hypocrisy brought against him by them, from which he doubted not he should upon a fair hearing be acquitted by God himself, yet it may include his whole state of justification, God-ward, in which he was and should continue; and so may respect, not only the justification of his cause before men, as it was ordered and managed by him, but also the justification of his person before God, of which he had a full assurance; having ordered his cause aright, settled matters well, and proceeded upon a good plan and foundation; which to do is not to put justification upon the foot of purity of nature at first birth, and a sober life and conversation from youth upward, and a perfection of good works arrived unto, as imagined; nor upon a comparative righteousness with respect to other men, even profane and ungodly persons; nor, upon repentance, and sincere though imperfect obedience; nor upon an external belief of evangelic truths, and a submission to Gospel ordinances: but such order their cause well, and rightly conclude their justification, who see and own themselves to be transgressors of the law of God, behold and acknowledge their own righteousness to be insufficient to justify them, view the righteousness of Christ revealed in the Gospel, in its glory, excellency, and suitableness, and lay hold upon it as their justifying righteousness; and observing that the word of God declares, that those that believe in Christ are and shall be justified, and finding in themselves that they do with the heart believe in Christ for righteousness, hence they most comfortably and most sensibly conclude that they are justified persons; for this knowledge is of faith, and this faith the faith of assurance; it is not barely for a man to know that there is righteousness in Christ, and justification by it, but that there is righteousness in him for himself, and that he is the Lord his righteousness; for the words may be rendered, "I know that I am righteous"; or, "am justified" u; justification is a past act in the mind of God; it is present, as it terminates on the conscience of a believer; it is future, as it will be notified at the day of judgment before angels and men; see Isaiah 45:25.
t משפט "judicium", Pagninus, Montanus, c. u כי אני אצדק "quod ego justus sum", Schmidt "me justum esse, vel fore", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I have ordered my cause - literally. “judgment?” - משׁפט mı̂shpâṭ. The Septuagint renders it, “I am near (ἐγγύς εἰμί engus eimi) to my judgment,” or my trial. The meaning may be, that he had gone through the pleading, and had said what he wished in self-vindication, and he was willing to leave the cause with God, and did not doubt the issue. Or more probably, I think, the word ערכתי ‛âraketı̂y should be taken, as the word ידעתי yāda‛tı̂y is, in the present tense, meaning “I now set in order my cause; I enter on the pleading; I am confident that I shall so present it as to be declared righteous.”
I know that I shall be justified - I have no doubt as to the issue. I shall be declared to be an holy man, and not a hypocrite. The word rendered “I shall be justified” (אצדק 'etsâdaq) is used here in the proper and literal sense of the word justify. It is a term of law; and means, “I shall be declared to be righteous. I shall be shown not to be guilty in the form charged on me, and shall be acquitted or vindicated.” This sense is different from that which so often occurs in the Scriptures when applied to the doctrine of the justification of a sinner. Then it means, to treat one AS IF he were righteous, though he is personally guilty and undeserving.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 13:18. Behold now, I have ordered — I am now ready to come into court, and care not how many I have to contend with, provided they speak truth.
