Job 23:7
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Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to victory.

There

Isaiah 1:18 And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.

Jeremiah 3:5 Wilt thou be angry for ever, or wilt thou continue unto the end? Behold, thou hast spoken, and hast done evil things, and hast been able.

Jeremiah 12:1 Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly?

so should

Job 9:15 I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge.

Romans 3:19-22 Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God. . . .

Romans 8:1,33,34 There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh. . . .

Context
Job Longs for God
6I would not that he should contend with me with much strength, nor overwhelm me with the weight of his greatness. 7Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to victory.8But if I go to the east, he appeareth not; if to the west, I shall not understand him.…
Cross References
Job 13:3
But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

Job 13:16
And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before his presence.

Job 23:10
But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:

Lexicon
Then
שָׁ֗ם (šām)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 8033: There, then, thither

an upright man
יָ֭שָׁר (yā·šār)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3477: Straight, right

could reason
נוֹכָ֣ח (nō·w·ḵāḥ)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3198: To be right, reciprocal, to argue, to decide, justify, convict

with Him,
עִמּ֑וֹ (‘im·mōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5973: With, equally with

and I would be delivered
וַאֲפַלְּטָ֥ה (wa·’ă·p̄al·lə·ṭāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6403: To slip out, escape, to deliver

forever
לָ֝נֶ֗צַח (lā·ne·ṣaḥ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5331: Eminence, enduring, everlastingness, perpetuity

from my Judge.
מִשֹּׁפְטִֽי׃ (miš·šō·p̄ə·ṭî)
Preposition-m | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 8199: To judge, pronounce sentence, to vindicate, punish, to govern, to litigate


Additional Translations
Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

There the upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

for truth and reproof are from him; and he would bring forth my judgment to an end.

There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge.

There the upright might reason with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.
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