Job 13:15 Cross References - LEB

¹⁵ Look,* though he kill me, I will hope in* him; however, I will defend my ways _⌊before him_⌋.*

⁶ "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end _⌊without hope_⌋.*

⁷ because of your knowledge that I am not guilty, and there is no escaping from your hand?

¹⁸ Please look,* I have prepared my case; I know that I myself* will be vindicated.

¹⁷ _⌊although_⌋* violence is not on my hands, and my prayer is pure.

²¹ and it argues* for a mortal with God, and as _⌊a human_⌋* for his friend.

²⁵ But* I myself* know that my redeemer is alive, and at the last he will stand up upon _⌊the earth_⌋.* ²⁶ And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but* from* my flesh I will see God, ²⁷ whom _⌊I will see for myself_⌋,* and whom my eyes will see and not a stranger.* _⌊My heart faints within me_⌋.* ²⁸ "If you* say, 'How will we persecute him?' And 'The root of the trouble is found' in me,*

⁴ I would lay my case _⌊before him_⌋,* and I would fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ I want to know the words with which he would answer me, and I want to understand what he would say to me. ⁶ Would he contend with me in the greatness of his strength? No, but he himself* would give heed to me. ⁷ There an upright person could reason with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.

¹⁰ But he knows _⌊the way that I take_⌋;* he tests me—I shall come out like gold.

⁵ Far be it from me that _⌊I would say that you* are right_⌋;* until I pass away, I will not put away from me my blamelessness.

³¹ _⌊Have the people of my tent not said_⌋,* '_⌊O that_⌋* someone* had not been satisfied with his meat'? ³² An alien has not lodged in the street; I have opened my door to the traveler. ³³ _⌊Have I concealed_⌋* my transgressions as other human beings to hide my iniquity in my bosom ³⁴ because I dreaded the great multitude, and the contempt of clans terrified me, so that I kept quiet, I did not go out of the doorway? ³⁵ _⌊O that_⌋* _⌊I had_⌋* someone hearing me! Here is my signature; let Shaddai answer me! _⌊As for_⌋* the written communication that _⌊my adversary_⌋* has written, ³⁶ I would _⌊surely_⌋* carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me like a crown. ³⁷ I would give him an account of my steps; I would approach him like a noble.

² "Shall a faultfinder contend with Shaddai? Anyone who argues with God must answer it."

⁴ "Look, I am insignificant. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. ⁵ Once I have spoken, and I will not answer; even* twice, but* I will not proceed."

⁸ "Indeed, would you annul my justice? Would you condemn me, so that you might be righteous?

⁴ Even when I walk in a dark valley, I fear no evil because you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

³² By his evildoing, the wicked will be overthrown, and the righteous will find refuge in his death.

³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²⁰ that* if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart and knows all things.