oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!
Parallel translations
- KJV Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
- BSB (Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
- NKJV Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my mark. Oh, that the Almighty would answer me, That my Prosecutor had written a book!
- NASB “Oh that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature; Let the Almighty answer me! And the indictment which my adversary has written,
- NLT “If only someone would listen to me! Look, I will sign my name to my defense. Let the Almighty answer me. Let my accuser write out the charges against me.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Job 40:4–5“Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
- Job 13:21–22withdraw your hand far from me; and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
- Job 19:23–24“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
- Job 23:3–7Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
- Job 17:3“Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
- Job 35:14How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
- Job 13:3“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
- Job 13:24Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
- Job 19:7“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
- Job 33:6Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
- Job 38:1–3Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
- Matt 5:25Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
- Job 30:28I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
- Job 27:7“Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
- Job 19:11He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
- Job 33:10–11Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.
- Ps 26:1By David. Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
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