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Job 13:17

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Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
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  1. Job 13:6Rank 1 from verse 17
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    6Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

  2. Job 21:2Rank 2 from verse 17
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    2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

  3. Job 33:1Rank 3 from verse 17
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    1WHEREFORE, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.

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Job 13:17

COMBINED MEANING

hear

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Sense 1: To perceive sound or spoken words. Sense 2: To receive or learn by report. Sense 3: To listen to, regard, or heed. Sense 4: To attend favourably to a request.

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COMBINED MEANING

speech

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1. Spoken words, discourse, or a message communicated in words. 2. The manner, quality, or ability of speaking. 3. A language or dialect.

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your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

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ears

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Plural form of ear. Sense 1: The organ of hearing. Sense 2: The seed-bearing head of grain.

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16He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

17Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

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18Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

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