King James Version
Job 23:4 in the King James Version says “I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.” — study this verse from Job chapter 23 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.”
Job 23:4 · KJV
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. stroke: Heb. hand
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“I would order”
H6186to set in a row, i.e., arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications)
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“my cause”
H4941properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind
“my mouth”
H6310the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with prepos
“him and fill”
H4390to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
“with arguments”
H8433chastisement; figuratively (by words) correction, refutation, proof (even in defense)
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