Job 23:7 · KJV
“There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.”
— Job 23:7
Will he plead against me with {his} great power? No; but he would put {strength} in me.
Behold, I go forward, but he {is} not {there}; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
Job 23 — Context
I would know the words {which} he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
6Will he plead against me with {his} great power? No; but he would put {strength} in me.
7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
8Behold, I go forward, but he {is} not {there}; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
9On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold {him}: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see {him}:
Cross References
Job 13:3
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Romans 8:1
{There is} therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous {art} thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of {thy} judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? {wherefore} are all they happy that deal very treacherously? {talk...: or, reason the case with thee}
Jeremiah 3:5
Will he reserve {his anger} for ever? will he keep {it} to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.
Job 9:15
Whom, though I were righteous, {yet} would I not answer, {but} I would make supplication to my judge.
Romans 8:33-34
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? {It is} God that justifieth.
Romans 3:19-22
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. {guilty...: or, subject to the judgment of God}