"O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!"
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Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,
That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.
Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!
That he would maintain the right of a man with God, Of a son of man with his neighbor!
And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.