Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me.
- BSB Then call me, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You can reply.
- NKJV Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, then You respond to me.
- NASB “Then call and I will answer; Or let me speak, then reply to me.
- NLT Now summon me, and I will answer! Or let me speak to you, and you reply.
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Quick answer
Job invites a two-way exchange with God, whether God speaks first or he does. He seeks genuine dialogue with his Maker.
Overview
Job proposes that God either call and he will answer, or let Job speak and God reply. He desires real communication, not a one-sided verdict. This longing for mutual response between God and man finds its answer in Christ, the mediator through whom God and sinners are reconciled and brought into fellowship.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Job 14:15Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
- Job 9:16If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
- Job 9:32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
- Job 38:3Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
- Job 42:3–6Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
- Job 40:4–5Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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