King James Version
Job 23:6 in the King James Version says “Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.” — study this verse from Job chapter 23 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.”
Job 23:6 · KJV
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.
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“power”
H3581vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce)
“Will he plead”
H7378properly, to toss, i.e., grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e., hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“No but he would put”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
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