O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man {pleadeth} for his neighbour! {neighbour: or, friend}

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

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire {is, that} the Almighty would answer me, and {that} mine adversary had written a book. {my...: or, my sign is that the Almighty will}

Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: {it was: or, the gospel was}

O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou {it} for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,

Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of {our} soul {is} to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. {committed...: Gr. put in us}

Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. {to the...: or, evermore}

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong {reasons}, saith the King of Jacob. {Produce: Heb. Cause to come near}

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man {pleadeth} for his neighbour! {neighbour: or, friend}

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but {there is} no judgment. {wrong: or, violence}

Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who {is} this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire {is, that} the Almighty would answer me, and {that} mine adversary had written a book. {my...: or, my sign is that the Almighty will}

Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew {their} strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.

Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who {is} a chosen {man, that} I may appoint over her? for who {is} like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who {is} that shepherd that will stand before me? {appoint me...: or, convent me in judgment?}

Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, {yet} judgment {is} before him; therefore trust thou in him.

If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

For {he is} not a man, as I {am, that} I should answer him, {and} we should come together in judgment.

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

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

Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

When the Almighty {was} yet with me, {when} my children {were} about me;

Behold, I {am} according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay. {wish: Heb. mouth} {formed: Heb. cut}

Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for {lack of} five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy {it}.

Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. {answer...: Heb. make me know}

{He is} near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who {is} mine adversary? let him come near to me. {mine...: Heb. the master of my cause?}