Job 13:18
Behold, now that I have prepared my case, I know that I will be vindicated.
BSB
ASV
Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I am righteous.
KJV
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just. Which too is not at variance with the person of the self-same blessed Job, since he is only telling that concerning himself without, which 'Truth' had inwardly declared to his enemy concerning him; Hast thou considered My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth? And yet it is much less that the holy man records concerning himself, than what the Lord declared concerning him. For it is one thing to be 'just,' and another to have 'none like him.'
This he knew because he knew that his Redeemer lived, ch. xix. Those whose hearts are upright with God, in walking not after the flesh but after the Spirit, may be sure that through Christ there shall be no condemnation to them, but that, whoever lays any thing to their charge, they shall be justified: they may know that they shall.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Job 16:21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
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Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.
Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.
Through
Job 9:20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
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Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?