Job 13:3
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But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

Surely

Job 13:22 Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me.

Job 9:34,35 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me. . . .

Job 11:5 And I wish that God would speak with thee, and would open his lips to thee,

Job 23:3-7 Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne? . . .

Job 31:35 Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,

I desire

Job 9:3,14,15 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand. . . .

Isaiah 1:18-20 And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool. . . .

Isaiah 41:21 Bring your cause near, saith the Lord: bring hither, if you have any thing to allege, saith the King of Jacob.

Jeremiah 12:1,2 Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly? . . .

*marg:

Micah 6:2 Let the mountains hear the judgment of the Lord, and the strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord will enter into judgment with his people, and he will plead against Israel.

Context
Job Reproves His Friends
2According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you. 3But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.4Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.…
Cross References
Job 5:8
Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:

Job 13:15
Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.

Job 13:22
Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me.

Job 23:4
I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints.

Job 23:7
Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to victory.

Job 40:2
Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God, ought to answer him.

Jeremiah 12:1
Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly?

Lexicon
Yet
אוּלָ֗ם (’ū·lām)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 199: However, on the contrary

I
אֲ֭נִי (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 589: I

desire
אֶחְפָּֽץ׃ (’eḥ·pāṣ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 2654: To incline to, to bend, to be pleased with, desire

to speak
אֲדַבֵּ֑ר (’ă·ḏab·bêr)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

the Almighty
שַׁדַּ֣י (šad·day)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7706: The Almighty

and argue my case
וְהוֹכֵ֖חַ (wə·hō·w·ḵê·aḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive absolute
Strong's Hebrew 3198: To be right, reciprocal, to argue, to decide, justify, convict

before
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

God.
אֵ֣ל (’êl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty


Additional Translations
Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

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

Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will.

But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with God;

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

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

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

Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.
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