KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 13:17–18
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Job 13:17
17Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
17Heare diligently my speach, and my declaration with your eares.
Job 13:18
18Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
18Behold now, I haue ordered my cause, I know that I shall be iustified.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 13:17
To perceive by the ear; to listen, attend, understand, or obey, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
diligently
With steady care, earnest effort, or close attention.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Spoken words; discourse, language, or an address.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
declaration
A statement, account, or open expression set forth or made known.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The organ of hearing; also, the seed-bearing head of grain.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 13:18
To look upon or see; as an interjection, look or take notice.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Regulated; methodized; disposed; commanded; managed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A reason, ground, matter in dispute, or judicial case; as a verb, to make something happen.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Declared righteous or acquitted; shown or proved to be right; or made to appear comparatively more righteous, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Skeat 1893 (headword: justify) · Webster 1828 (headword: justify)
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From verse 17
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Open the full verse study6Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
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Open the full verse study2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
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Open the full verse study1WHEREFORE, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
From verse 18
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Open the full verse study4I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
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Open the full verse study2I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
3If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
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Open the full verse study12For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
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Open the full verse study26Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
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Open the full verse study21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
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Open the full verse study7Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
8Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
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Open the full verse study20If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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Open the full verse study33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
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