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Job 23

Job 23:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I would order
`arak (Hebrew #6186)
to set in a row, i.e. arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: put (set) (the battle, self) in array, compare, direct, equal, esteem, estimate, expert (in war), furnish, handle, join (battle), ordain, (lay, put, reckon up, set) (in) order, prepare, tax, value.
Pronounce: aw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
my cause
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
x before
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
him, and fill
male' (Hebrew #4390)
a primitive root, to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: accomplish, confirm, + consecrate, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil, (be, become, X draw, give in, go) full(-ly, -ly set, tale), (over-)flow, fulness, furnish, gather (selves, together), presume, replenish, satisfy, set, space, take a (hand-)full, + have wholly.
Pronounce: maw-lay'
Origin: or malae (Esth. 7:5) {maw-law'}
my mouth
peh (Hebrew #6310)
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
KJV usage: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), X eat, edge, end, entry, + file, hole, X in, mind, mouth, part, portion, X (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, X spoken, talk, tenor, X to, + two-edged, wish, word.
Pronounce: peh
Origin: from 6284
with arguments
towkechah (Hebrew #8433)
from 3198; chastisement; figuratively (by words) correction, refutation, proof (even in defence)
KJV usage: argument, X chastened, correction, reasoning, rebuke, reproof, X be (often) reproved.
Pronounce: to-kay-khaw'
Origin: and towkachath {to-kakh'-ath}
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Isa. 43:26• 26Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set thou forth [thy cause], that thou mayest be justified. (Isa. 43:26)

Cross References

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Job 13:18• 18Lo, now, I have ordered my cause,{HR}I know that I shall be justified. (Job 13:18)
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Job 37:19• 19Teach us what we shall say to him?{HR}We cannot set forth because of darkness. (Job 37:19)
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Psa. 43:1• 1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause with an ungodly nation;{HR}From a man of deceit and iniquity do thou deliver me. (Psa. 43:1)
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Isa. 43:26• 26Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set thou forth [thy cause], that thou mayest be justified. (Isa. 43:26)
fill my mouth.
Gen. 18:25‑32• 25{i}Far be it from thee to do so, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous should be as the wicked—far be it from thee! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?{/i}
 26{i}And{/i} Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
 27{i}And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have ventured to speak unto the Lord; I, who am dust and ashes.{/i}
 28{i}Perhaps there may want five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city on account of the five? And he said, If I shall find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.{/i}
 29{i}And he continued yet to speak with him, and said, Perhaps there may be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake.{/i}
 30{i}And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry that I speak! Perhaps there may be thirty found there. And he said, I will not do it if I find thirty there.{/i}
 31{i}And he said, Behold now, I have ventured to speak with the Lord. Perhaps there may be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake.{/i}
 32{i}And he said,{/i} Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. (Gen. 18:25‑32)
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Gen. 32:12• 12And thou saidst, I will certainly deal well with thee, and make thy seed as sand of the sea which cannot be numbered for multitude. (Gen. 32:12)
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Ex. 32:12‑13• 12Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
 13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel , thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it forever. (Ex. 32:12‑13)
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Num. 14:13‑19• 13{i}And Moses said to Jehovah,{/i} Then the Egyptians shall hear it (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them);
 14and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou, Jehovah, art among this people, that thou, Jehovah, art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
 15Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
 16Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
 17And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken.
 18Jehovah is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
 19Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. (Num. 14:13‑19)
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Josh. 7:8‑9• 8O Jehovah, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
 9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name? (Josh. 7:8‑9)
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Psa. 25:11• 11For thy name's sake, O Jehovah,{HR}Thou hast even pardoned mine iniquity,{HR}For it [is] great. (Psa. 25:11)
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Dan. 9:18‑19• 18{i}Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolations, and the city that is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee because of our righteousnesses, but because of thy manifold mercies.{/i}
 19{i}Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, hearken and do! defer not, for thine own sake, O my God! for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.{/i} (Dan. 9:18‑19)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I would order the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments;

W. Kelly Translation

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I would draw up the cause before him,{HR}And would fill my mouth with arguments;