Job 9:3 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
יַ֭חְפֹּץ	Yach.potz	someone desires	H2654 →
לָרִ֣יב	la.Riv	to conduct a case	H7378 →
עִמּ֑וֹ	i.Mo	with him	H5973 →
לֹֽא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
יַ֝עֲנֶ֗נּוּ	ya.'a.Ne.nu	he will answer him	H6030 →
אַחַ֥ת	'a.Chat	one [time]	H259 →
מִנִּי־	mi.ni-	from	H4480 →
אָֽלֶף׃	'A.lef	a thousand	H505 →

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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Where the connections lead

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
Psalms 19:12
Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.
leads to
- Psalms 139:23–24
  Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 90:8
  You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
- Job 6:24
  Teach me, and I will be silent. Help me understand how I have erred.
- Jeremiah 17:9
  The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
- Psalms 40:12
  For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
Through
Job 40:2
“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 2:16
  “For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
- Isaiah 40:14
  Whom did He consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge to Him and showed Him the way of understanding?
- Romans 11:34–36
  “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Job 10:2I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.Job 40:2“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”Job 40:5I have spoken once, but I have no answer—twice, but I have nothing to add.”Job 13:3Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.Job 23:3–7If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.Job 9:32–33For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.Psalms 19:12Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.Job 9:20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.Romans 9:20But 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?”Job 31:35–37(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.1 John 3:20Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.Psalms 40:12For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.Isaiah 57:15–16For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.Job 33:13Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?1 John 1:8If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.Job 33:23Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,Job 31:37I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—Job 9:14How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?

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