Job 23:4
I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.
BSB
ASV
I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.
KJV
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
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I would order my cause before him - Compare the notes at Isa 43:26. That is, I would arrange my arguments, or plead my cause, as one does in a court of justice. I would suggest the considerations which would show that I am not guilty in the sense charged by my friends, and that notwithstanding my calamities, I am the real friend of God.
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Isaiah 43:26Remind Me, let us argue the matter together. State your case, so that you may be vindicated.
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“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and proclaim to us the former things? Let them present their witnesses to vindicate them, so that others may…
Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.
I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
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Genesis 32:12But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
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And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the…
So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.
