Job 23:7 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Then decent people could argue with him, and I would escape my judgment forever.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Job 23:7 Cross References

XREF:

Job 13:3 "But I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to argue with God.

Job 13:16 "This also will be my salvation, For a godless man may not come before His presence.

Job 23:10 "But He knows the way I take; When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

23:7 {d} There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
(d) When he of his mercy has given strength to maintain their cause.

WES:

23:7 There - At that throne of grace, where God lays aside his majesty, and judges according to his wonted clemency. Dispute - Humbly propounding the grounds of their confidence. So - Upon such a fair and equal hearing. Delivered - From the damnatory sentence of God. This and some such expressions of Job cannot be excused from irreverence towards God, for which God afterwards reproves him, and Job abhorreth himself.

MHC:

23:1-7 Job appeals from his friends to the just judgement of God. He wants to have his cause tried quickly. Blessed be God, we may know where to find him. He is in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself; and upon a mercy-seat, waiting to be gracious. Thither the sinner may go; and there the believer may order his cause before Him, with arguments taken from his promises, his covenant, and his glory. A patient waiting for death and judgment is our wisdom and duty, and it cannot be without a holy fear and trembling. A passionate wishing for death or judgement is our sin and folly, and ill becomes us, as it did Job.

CONC:

Acquitted Case Cause Delivered Dispute Escape Forever Free Judge Present Reason Righteous Upright

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