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Job 13:17 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears. "
Job 13:17
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
15 Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
16 This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him.
17 Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.
18 See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit.
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Job 13:1
"“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it."
Job 13:2
"What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you."
Job 13:3
"“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God."
Job 13:4
"But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value."
Job 13:5
"Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise."
Job 13:6
"Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips."
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