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1“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.Cross-references: Job 4:12 · Job 5:9 · Job 5:27 · Job 8:8 · Job 12:9 · Job 15:17 · +3 more
2What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.Cross-references: Job 12:3 · Job 15:8 · Job 34:35 · Job 35:16 · Job 37:2 · Job 40:4 · +5 more
3“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.Cross-references: Job 9:3 · Job 9:14 · Job 9:34 · Job 11:5 · Job 13:15 · Job 13:22 · +6 more
4But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.Cross-references: Ex 20:16 · Job 4:7 · Job 5:1 · Job 6:21 · Job 8:3 · Job 16:2 · +13 more
5Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.Cross-references: Job 11:3 · Job 13:13 · Job 16:3 · Job 18:2 · Job 19:2 · Job 21:2 · +5 more
6Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.Cross-references: Judg 9:7 · Job 21:2 · Job 33:1 · Job 34:2 · Prov 8:6
7Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?Cross-references: Job 4:7 · Job 11:2 · Job 17:5 · Job 27:4 · Job 32:21 · Job 36:4 · +3 more
8Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?Cross-references: Ex 23:2 · Lev 19:15 · Job 32:21 · Job 34:19 · Prov 24:23 · Mal 2:9
9Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?Cross-references: Job 12:16 · Job 17:2 · Job 34:36 · Ps 44:21 · Ps 139:23 · Isa 28:22 · +2 more
10He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.Cross-references: Job 42:7 · Ps 50:21 · Ps 82:2 · James 2:9
11Won’t his majesty make you afraid and his dread fall on you?Cross-references: Ex 15:16 · Job 13:21 · Job 31:23 · Ps 119:120 · Isa 8:13 · Jer 5:22 · +3 more
12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.Cross-references: Gen 2:7 · Gen 18:27 · Ex 17:14 · Job 4:19 · Job 18:17 · Ps 34:16 · +5 more
13“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.Cross-references: Job 6:9 · Job 7:11 · Job 7:15 · Job 10:1 · Job 13:5 · Job 21:3
14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?Cross-references: Judg 12:3 · 1Sam 19:5 · 1Sam 28:21 · Job 18:4 · Ps 119:109 · Eccl 4:5 · +2 more
15Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.Cross-references: Job 7:6 · Job 10:7 · Job 13:18 · Job 16:17 · Job 16:21 · Job 19:25 · +11 more
16This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him.Cross-references: Ex 15:2 · Job 8:13 · Job 27:8 · Job 36:13 · Ps 27:1 · Ps 62:6 · +6 more
17Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.Cross-references: Job 13:6 · Job 21:2 · Job 33:1
18See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.Cross-references: Job 9:2 · Job 9:20 · Job 16:21 · Job 23:4 · Job 40:7 · Isa 43:26 · +2 more
19Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit.Cross-references: Job 7:11 · Job 10:8 · Job 13:13 · Job 19:5 · Job 33:5 · Job 33:32 · +3 more
20“Only don’t do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face:Cross-references: Gen 3:8 · Job 9:34 · Ps 139:12 · Rev 6:15
21withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.Cross-references: Job 9:34 · Job 10:20 · Job 13:11 · Job 22:15 · Job 33:7 · Ps 39:10 · +1 more
22Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.Cross-references: Job 9:16 · Job 9:32 · Job 14:15 · Job 38:3 · Job 40:4 · Job 42:3
23How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.Cross-references: Job 22:5 · Job 36:8 · Ps 44:20 · Ps 139:23
24Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?Cross-references: Deut 32:20 · 1Sam 28:16 · Job 10:2 · Job 16:9 · Job 19:11 · Job 29:2 · +11 more
25Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?Cross-references: Lev 26:36 · 1Sam 24:14 · Job 14:3 · Job 21:18 · Isa 17:13 · Matt 12:20
26For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.Cross-references: Ruth 1:20 · Job 3:20 · Job 20:11 · Ps 25:7 · Ps 88:3 · Prov 5:11 · +3 more
27You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,Cross-references: 2Chr 16:10 · Job 2:7 · Job 10:6 · Job 14:16 · Job 16:9 · Job 33:11 · +2 more
28though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.Cross-references: Num 12:12 · Job 4:19 · Job 30:17 · Job 30:29 · Ps 39:11 · Hos 5:12
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