Job 31:35

Coverdale Bible (1535)

O that I had one which wolde heare me. Lo, this is my cause. Let ye Allmightie geue me answere: & let him that is my cotrary party, sue me with a lybell.

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  • Job 13:21-22 : 21 Withdrawe thine honde fro me, & let not the fearfull drede of the make me afrayed. 22 And then sende for me to the lawe, yt I maye answere for my self: or els, let me speake, and geue thou the answere.
  • Job 19:23-24 : 23 O that my wordes were written, O that they were put in a boke: 24 wolde God they were graue wt an yron pene in leade or in stone.
  • Job 23:3-7 : 3 O that I might se him & fynde him: O that I might come before his seate, 4 to pleate my cause before him, and to fyll my mouth with argumentes: 5 That I might knowe, what answere he wolde geue me: & that I might vnderstonde, what he wolde saye vnto me. 6 Wil he pleate agaynst me with his greate power & strength, or wyll he leane him self vtterly vpon me? 7 Oh no, let him not do so with me. But let hym geue me like power to go to lawe, then am I sure to wynne my matter.
  • Job 27:7 : 7 Therfore myne enemy shalbe founde as the vngodly, & he yt taketh parte agaynst me, as the vnrightuous.
  • Job 30:28 : 28 Mekely & lowly came I in, yee & without eny displeasure: I stode vp in ye cogregacion, & commoned with the
  • Job 33:6 : 6 Beholde, before God am I euen as thou, for I am fashioned and made eue of the same moulde.
  • Job 33:10-11 : 10 But lo, he hath pyked a quarell agaynst me, & taketh me for his enemy: 11 he hath put my fote in the stockes, & loketh narowly vnto all my pathes.
  • Job 35:14 : 14 Wha thou speakest then, shulde not he pardon the, yff thou open thyself before him, and put thy trust in him?
  • Job 38:1-3 : 1 Then spake the LORDE vnto Iob out of the storme, and sayde: 2 what is he, that hydeth his mynde with foolysh wordes? 3 Gyrde vp thy loynes like a ma, for I will question the, se thou geue me a dyrecte answere.
  • Job 40:4-5 : 4 Beholde, I am to vyle a personne, to answere the, therfore will I laye my hande vpon my mouth. 5 Once or twyse haue I spoken, but I will saye nomore.
  • Ps 26:1 : 1 Be thou my iudge (O LORDE) for I walke innocently: my trust is in the LORDE, therfore shall I not fall.
  • Matt 5:25 : 25 Agre with thine aduersary quicklye, whyle thou art in the waye with hym, lest that aduersary deliuer the to the iudge, and the iudge deliuer the to the minister, and then thou be cast in to preson.
  • Job 13:24 : 24 Wherfore hydest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemye?
  • Job 17:3 : 3 O delyuer me, and set me by the, who shall then be able to thrust my hondes together?
  • Job 19:7 : 7 Beholde, though I crie, yet violece is done vnto me, I can not be herde: Though I complane, there is none to geue sentece with me.
  • Job 19:11 : 11 His wrath is kyndled agaynst me, he taketh me, as though I were his enemy.
  • Job 13:3 : 3 Neuerthelesse I am purposed to talke with the Allmightie, and my desyre is to comon with God.

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  • Job 23:3-7
    5 verses
    78%

    3O that I might se him & fynde him: O that I might come before his seate,

    4to pleate my cause before him, and to fyll my mouth with argumentes:

    5That I might knowe, what answere he wolde geue me: & that I might vnderstonde, what he wolde saye vnto me.

    6Wil he pleate agaynst me with his greate power & strength, or wyll he leane him self vtterly vpon me?

    7Oh no, let him not do so with me. But let hym geue me like power to go to lawe, then am I sure to wynne my matter.

  • Job 6:8-10
    3 verses
    77%

    8O that I might haue my desyre: O yt God wolde graunte me the thynge, that I longe for:

    9That he wolde begynne and smyte me: that he wolde let his honde go, & hew me downe.

    10The shulde I haue some coforte: yee I wolde desyre him in my payne, that he shulde not spare, for I will not be agaynst ye wordes of the holy one.

  • Job 31:36-38
    3 verses
    77%

    36Then shall I take it vpon my shulder, & as a garlade aboute my heade.

    37I haue tolde the nombre of my goinges, and delyuered them vnto him as to a prynce.

    38But yf case be that my londe crie agaynst me, or yt the forowes therof make eny complaynte:

  • 3Neuerthelesse I am purposed to talke with the Allmightie, and my desyre is to comon with God.

  • 23O that my wordes were written, O that they were put in a boke:

  • Job 33:31-32
    2 verses
    75%

    31Marke well (O Iob) & heare me: holde the still, vntill I haue spoken.

    32But yf thou hast eny thinge to saye, then answere me and speake, for thy answere pleaseth me.

  • 5O that God wolde speake, and open his lippes agaynst the,

  • 21Though a body might pleate wt God, as one man doth with another,

  • 36O father, let Iob be well tryed, because he he hath turned himself to ye wicked:

  • 22And then sende for me to the lawe, yt I maye answere for my self: or els, let me speake, and geue thou the answere.

  • Job 9:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15Yee though I be rightuous, yet will I not geue him one worde agayne, but mekely submytte my self to my iudge.

    16All be it that I call vpon him, and he heare me, yet am I not sure, yt he hath herde my voyce:

  • 1Wherfore, heare my wordes (O Iob) & herken vnto all, that I wyll saye:

  • 19What is he, that will go to lawe with me? For yf I holde my tonge, I shal dye.

  • 34For yf I had feared eny greate multitude of people: Or yf I had bene dispysed of ye symple, Oh then shulde I haue bene afrayed. Thus haue I quyetly spent my lyfe, and not gone out at ye dore.

  • 4O herken thou vnto me also, and let me speake: answere me vnto the thinge that I will axe the.

  • 5Yf thou cast, then geue me answere: prepare thy self to stode before me face to face.

  • 7Beholde, though I crie, yet violece is done vnto me, I can not be herde: Though I complane, there is none to geue sentece with me.

  • Job 6:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Iob answered, and sayde:

    2O that my misery weere weyed, and my punyshment layed in the balaunces:

  • 15Yf thou woldest but call me, I shulde obeie the: only despyse not the worke of thine owne hondes.

  • 5But yf ye wil enhaunce yor selues agaynst me, & accuse me to be a wicked personne because of the shame that is come vpon me:

  • 8Now hast thou spoken in myne eares, & I haue herde ye voyce of thy wordes:

  • 2The enemie crieth so, & the vngodly commeth on so fast: for they are mynded to do me some myschefe, so maliciously are they set agaynst me.

  • Job 21:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3Suffre me a litle, that I maye speake also, and the laugh my wordes to scorne, yf ye will.

    4Is it with a man, that I make this disputacio? Which yf it were so, shulde not my sprete be the in sore trouble?

  • 32For he yt I must geue answere vnto, and with whom I go to lawe, is not a man as I am.

  • 35and then shal I answere him without eny feare. For as longe as I am in soch fearfulnesse, I can make no answere: And why?

  • 8But now will I speake off the LORDE, and talke of God:

  • 13Holde youre tonges now, and let me speake, for there is some thinge come in to my mynde.

  • 13O that thou woldest kepe me, and hyde me in the hell, vntill thy wrath were stilled: & to appoynte me a tyme, wherin thou mightest remembre me.

  • 14But seynge that God wil sytt in iudgment, what shal I do? And for so moch as he wil nedes vyset me, what answere shal I geue him?

  • 19Yf men will speake of strength, he is the stogest of all: yf me will speake of rightousnes, who darre be my recorde?

  • 15Beholde, these men saye vnto me: Where is the worde of the LORDE? Let it come.

  • 9Doth God heare him the sooner, whe he crieth vnto him in his necessite?

  • 3I haue sufficiently herde the checkynge & reprofe, therfore am I purposed to make answere after my vnderstodinge.

  • 20Shall not my short life come soone to an ende? O holde the fro me, let me alone, that I maye ease myself a litle:

  • 34For els the men of vnderstodinge & wisdome that haue herde me, might saye: What cast thou speake?

  • 10But lo, he hath pyked a quarell agaynst me, & taketh me for his enemy:

  • 8Myne aduocate speaketh for me, who wil then go with me to lawe? Let vs stode one agaynst another: yf there be eny that wil reason with me, let him come here forth to me.

  • 6Therfore heare my wordes, and pondre the sentence of my lippes.