Job 9:15
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Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
In other translations
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Job 10:15If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
- Job 8:5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
- Job 22:27Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.
- Job 10:2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
- Job 5:8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
- 1 Peter 2:23Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.
- 1 Corinthians 4:4For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.My conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who judges me.
- 1 Kings 8:38-3938 What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: 39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)38 then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple— 39 be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and act, and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of all men—
- Job 23:7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
- Job 34:31-3231 Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: 32 That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.31 Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more. 32 Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’
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