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Job 23:4

I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God Continued...;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Rephidim;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Intercession;   Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Justification, Justify;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Order;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I would plead my case before himand fill my mouth with arguments.
Hebrew Names Version
I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.
King James Version
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
English Standard Version
I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
New Century Version
I would present my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
New English Translation
I would lay out my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
Amplified Bible
"I would present my cause before Him And fill my mouth with arguments.
New American Standard Bible
"I would present my case before Him And fill my mouth with arguments.
World English Bible
I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I would pleade the cause before him, & fill my mouth with arguments.
Legacy Standard Bible
I would arrange my case for justice before HimAnd fill my mouth with arguments.
Berean Standard Bible
I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.
Contemporary English Version
and argue my case.
Complete Jewish Bible
I would state my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
Darby Translation
I would order the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments;
Easy-to-Read Version
I would present my case to him. I would make my arguments to show that I am innocent.
George Lamsa Translation
I would lay my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Good News Translation
I would state my case before him and present all the arguments in my favor.
Lexham English Bible
I would lay my case before him, and I would fill my mouth with arguments.
Literal Translation
I would order my cause before Him, and I would fill my mouth with arguments.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
to pleate my cause before him, and to fyll my mouth with argumentes:
American Standard Version
I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.
Bible in Basic English
I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I would order my cause before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
King James Version (1611)
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I woulde pleade my cause before hym, and fill my mouth with argumentes:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I would plead my own cause, and he would fill my mouth with arguments.
English Revised Version
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal sette doom bifor hym, and Y schal fille my mouth with blamyngis;
Update Bible Version
I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.
Webster's Bible Translation
I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
New King James Version
I would present my case before Him, And fill my mouth with arguments.
New Living Translation
I would lay out my case and present my arguments.
New Life Bible
I would tell Him how things are with me, and my mouth would be ready to argue.
New Revised Standard
I would lay my case before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I would set out, before him, a plea, and, my mouth, would I fill with arguments;
Revised Standard Version
I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
Young's Literal Translation
I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill [with] arguments.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I would present my case before Him And fill my mouth with arguments.

Contextual Overview

1 Then Job answered, and said: 2 Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning. 3 Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne? 4 I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints. 5 That I might know the words that he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me. 6 I would not that he should contend with me with much strength, nor overwhelm me with the weight of his greatness. 7 Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to victory.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

order: Job 13:18, Job 37:19, Psalms 43:1, Isaiah 43:26

fill my mouth: Genesis 18:25-32, Genesis 32:12, Exodus 32:12, Exodus 32:13, Numbers 14:13-19, Joshua 7:8, Joshua 7:9, Psalms 25:11, Daniel 9:18, Daniel 9:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:28 - wilt Numbers 27:5 - General Job 9:14 - choose Job 13:15 - but I will Job 33:5 - set Job 33:6 - I am Job 38:2 - General Job 40:4 - what Job 40:7 - Gird Isaiah 41:21 - Produce

Cross-References

Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.
Genesis 17:8
And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.
Genesis 23:12
Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.
Genesis 23:13
And he spoke to Ephron, in the presence of the people: I beseech thee to hear me: I will give money for the field; take it, and so will I bury my dead in it.
Genesis 23:16
And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred sicles of silver, of common current money.
Genesis 47:9
He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.
Genesis 49:30
Over against Mambre, in the land of Chanaan, which Abraham bought together with the field, of Ephron the Hethite, for a possession to bury in.
Genesis 50:13
And carrying him into the land of Chanaan, they buried him in the double cave, which Abraham had bought together with the field for a possession of a burying place, of Ehpron, the Hethite, over against Mambre.
Leviticus 25:23
The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. I Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I would order [my] cause before him,.... Either, as a praying person, direct his prayer to him, and set it in order before him, see Psalms 5:3; or else as pleading in his own defence, and in justification of himself; not of his person before God, setting his works of righteousness in order before him, and pleading his justification on the foot of them; for, by these no flesh living can be justified before God; but of his cause, for, as a man may vindicate his cause before men, and clear himself from aspersions cast upon him, as Samuel did,

1 Samuel 12:5; so he may before God, with respect to the charges he is falsely loaded with, and may appeal to him for justice, and desire he would stir up himself, and awake to his judgment, even to his cause, and plead it against those that strive with him, as David did,

Psalms 35:1;

and fill my mouth with arguments; either in prayer, as a good man may; not with such as are taken from his goodness and righteousness, but from the person, office, grace, blood, righteousness, and sacrifice of Christ, and from the declarations of God's grace, and the promises of his word; or else as in a court of judicature, bringing forth his strong reasons, and giving proofs of his innocence, such as would be demonstrative, even convincing to all that should hear, and be not only proofs for him, and in his favour, but reproofs also, as the word c signifies, to those that contended with him.

c תוכחות "increpationibus", V. L. and so Montanus, Beza, Mercerus, Drusius, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I would order my cause before him - Compare the notes at Isaiah 43:26. That is, I would arrange my arguments, or plead my cause, as one does in a court of justice. I would suggest the considerations which would show that I am not guilty in the sense charged by my friends, and that notwithstanding my calamities, I am the real friend of God.

And fill my mouth with arguments - Probably he means that he would appeal to the evidence furnished by a life of benevolence and justice, that he was not a hypocrite or a man of distinguished wickedness, as his friends maintained.


 
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