Job 31:35 Cross References - Coverdale

³⁵ O that I had one which wolde heare me. Lo, this is my cause. Let ye Allmightie geue me answere: & let him that is my cotrary party, sue me with a lybell.

³ Neuerthelesse I am purposed to talke with the Allmightie, and my desyre is to comon with God.

²¹ Withdrawe thine honde fro me, & let not the fearfull drede of the make me afrayed. ²² And then sende for me to the lawe, yt I maye answere for my self: or els, let me speake, and geue thou the answere.

²⁴ Wherfore hydest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemye?

³ O delyuer me, and set me by the, who shall then be able to thrust my hondes together?

⁷ Beholde, though I crie, yet violece is done vnto me, I can not be herde: Though I complane, there is none to geue sentece with me.

¹¹ His wrath is kyndled agaynst me, he taketh me, as though I were his enemy.

²³ O that my wordes were written, O that they were put in a boke: ²⁴ wolde God they were graue wt an yron pene in leade or in stone.

³ O that I might se him & fynde him: O that I might come before his seate, ⁴ to pleate my cause before him, and to fyll my mouth with argumentes: ⁵ That I might knowe, what answere he wolde geue me: & that I might vnderstonde, what he wolde saye vnto me. ⁶ Wil he pleate agaynst me with his greate power & strength, or wyll he leane him self vtterly vpon me? ⁷ Oh no, let him not do so with me. But let hym geue me like power to go to lawe, then am I sure to wynne my matter.

⁷ Therfore myne enemy shalbe founde as the vngodly, & he yt taketh parte agaynst me, as the vnrightuous.

²⁸ Mekely & lowly came I in, yee & without eny displeasure: I stode vp in ye cogregacion, & commoned with the

⁶ Beholde, before God am I euen as thou, for I am fashioned and made eue of the same moulde.

¹⁰ But lo, he hath pyked a quarell agaynst me, & taketh me for his enemy: ¹¹ he hath put my fote in the stockes, & loketh narowly vnto all my pathes.

¹⁴ Wha thou speakest then, shulde not he pardon the, yff thou open thyself before him, and put thy trust in him?

¹ Then spake the LORDE vnto Iob out of the storme, and sayde: ² what is he, that hydeth his mynde with foolysh wordes? ³ Gyrde vp thy loynes like a ma, for I will question the, se thou geue me a dyrecte answere.

⁴ Beholde, I am to vyle a personne, to answere the, therfore will I laye my hande vpon my mouth. ⁵ Once or twyse haue I spoken, but I will saye nomore.

¹ Be thou my iudge (O LORDE) for I walke innocently: my trust is in the LORDE, therfore shall I not fall.

²⁵ Agre with thine aduersary quicklye, whyle thou art in the waye with hym, lest that aduersary deliuer the to the iudge, and the iudge deliuer the to the minister, and then thou be cast in to preson.