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Job 13:6 Cross-References
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“Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.”
Job 13:6 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 13:6
Hear now my reasoning (שִׁמְעוּ־נָא תוֹכַחְתִּי, shim'u-na tokhakhti)—Job shifts from defending himself to prosecuting his case. The Hebrew tokhakhti (my reasoning/argument/reproof) is legal terminology, presenting Job as plaintiff in a lawsuit against God's apparent injustice.The pleadings of my lips (רִיבוֹת שְׂפָתַי, rivot sefatay)—Rivot means 'legal disputes' or 'contentions,' the same root used in Isaiah 1:18 ('come let us reason together'). Job demands his comforters—and ultimately God—listen to his case with the seriousness of a courtroom. This verse inaugurates the lawsuit motif that d...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 13:6
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“for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.”
“he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim”