Job 13:6
Hear now my argument, and listen to the plea of my lips.
BSB
ASV
Hear now my reasoning, And hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
KJV
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Hear now my reasoning - The speeches in this book are conceived as it delivered in a court of justice, different counselors pleading against each other. Hence most of the terms are forensic.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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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.
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Judges 9:7When this was reported to Jotham, he climbed to the top of Mount Gerizim, raised his voice, and cried out: “Listen to me, O leaders of Shechem, and may God listen to you.
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When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
“When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
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Job 34:2“Hear my words, O wise men; give ear to me, O men of learning.
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Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
I speak to reasonable people; judge for yourselves what I say.