Job 23:5
I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.
BSB
ASV
I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would say unto me.
KJV
I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
I would know the words which he would answer me - That is, I wish to understand what would be “his” decision in the case - and what would be his judgment in regard to me. That was of infinitely more importance than any opinion which “man” could form, and Job was anxious to have the matter decided by a tribunal which could not err. Why should “we” not desire to know exactly what God thinks of us, and what estimate he has formed of our character?
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 walk5
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 10:2I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
leads to
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
