But if you will seek God earnestly
    and plead(A) with the Almighty,(B)

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If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

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13 “Yet if you devote your heart(A) to him
    and stretch out your hands(B) to him,(C)

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13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

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But I desire to speak to the Almighty(A)
    and to argue my case with God.(B)

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Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

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15 Though he slay me, yet will I hope(A) in him;(B)
    I will surely[a] defend my ways to his face.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 13:15 Or He will surely slay me; I have no hope — / yet I will

15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

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I would state my case(A) before him
    and fill my mouth with arguments.(B)

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I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

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40 The Lord said to Job:(A)

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40 Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said,

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23 Awake,(A) and rise(B) to my defense!
    Contend(C) for me, my God and Lord.

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23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

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15 and call(A) on me in the day of trouble;(B)
    I will deliver(C) you, and you will honor(D) me.”

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15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

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Jeremiah’s Complaint

12 You are always righteous,(A) Lord,
    when I bring a case(B) before you.
Yet I would speak with you about your justice:(C)
    Why does the way of the wicked prosper?(D)
    Why do all the faithless live at ease?

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12 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?

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My conscience(A) is clear, but that does not make me innocent.(B) It is the Lord who judges me.(C)

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For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

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