4 I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you. 5 But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief. 6 Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
Job 16:4–6
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Job 32:19–21
19 Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin. 20 I must speak and find relief; I must open my lips and respond. 21 I will be partial to no one, nor will I flatter any man.
Job 11:4–6
4 You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’ 5 But if only God would speak and open His lips against you, 6 and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity d…
Job 21:33–34
33 The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number. 34 So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
Job 21:1–3
1 Then Job answered: 2 “Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me. 3 Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
Job 4:1–3
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: 2 “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking? 3 Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
Job 23:3–5
3 If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat. 4 I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.
Job 7:10–12
10 He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more. 11 Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. 12 Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under…
2 Baruch 48:20–22
20 For this is the nation which Thou hast chosen, And these are the people, to whom Thou findest no equal. (2BA) 21 But I will speak now before Thee, And I will say as my heart thinketh. (2BA) 22 'In Thee do we trust, for lo! Thy law is with us, And we know that we shall not fall s… (2BA)
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