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Job Chapter 13 verse 3 Holy Bible

ASV Job 13:3

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.
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BBE Job 13:3

But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.
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DARBY Job 13:3

But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with ùGod;
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KJV Job 13:3

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
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WBT Job 13:3

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
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WEB Job 13:3

"Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
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YLT Job 13:3

Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 3-13. - The second section of Job's argument is prefaced, like the first (Job 12:2-5), with a complaint with respect to the conduct of his opponents. He taxes them with the fabrication of lies (ver 4), with want of skill as physicians of souls (ver. 4), with vindicating God by reasonings in which they do not themselves believe (vers. 7, 8), and consequently with really mocking him (ver. 9). Having warned them that they are more likely to offend God than to please him by such arguments as those that they have urged (vers. 10-12), he calls on them to hold their peace, and allow him to plead his cause with God (ver. 13). Verse 3. - Surely I would speak to the Almighty. It is not Job's wish to argue his ease with his three friends, but to reason it out with God. His friends, however, interfere with this design, check it, thwart it, prevent him from carrying it out. He must therefore first speak a few words to them. And I desire to reason with God. Compare God's own invitation to his people, "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord" (Isaiah 1:18), and again, "Put me in remembrance, let us plead together; declare thou, that thou mayest be justified" (Isaiah 43:26); which indicate God's gracious willingness to allow men to plead on their own behalf before him, and do their best to justify themselves.

Ellicott's Commentary