20 Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up ?
Job 37:20
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Job 9:15–17
15 For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy. 16 If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice. 17 For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
Job 33:12–14
12 Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man. 13 Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks? 14 For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.
Job 7:18–20
18 that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment? 19 Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle? 20 If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden…
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.
2 Baruch 3:1–2
1 And I said: 'O Lord, my Lord, have I come into the world for this purpose that I might see the (2BA) 2 evils of my mother? Not (so) my Lord. If I have found grace in Thy sight, first take my spirit (2BA)
Job 23:5–7
5 I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say. 6 Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me. 7 Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
Job 41:2–4
2 Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? 3 Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly? 4 Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
Job 15:7–9
7 Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills? 8 Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself? 9 What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
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