Job 13:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Surely I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue and reason my case with God [that He may explain the conflict between what I believe of Him and what I see of Him].

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

But I want to speak to the Almighty; I would gladly present my case to God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Yet I speak this way to the Almighty, and I desire to argue with God,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But yet I will speak to the Almighty: and I desire to reason with God.

Job 13:3 Cross References

Job 11:5

But oh, that God would speak, and open his lips to you,

Job 13:15

Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope; yet I will defend my ways to his face.

Job 13:22

Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and do thou reply to me.

Job 31:35

Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!

Job 40:2

“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

Job 5:8

“As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause;

Job 9:3

If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.

Isaiah 41:21

Set forth your case, says the Lord; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.

Micah 6:2

Hear, you mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.