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Job 13:2–3

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What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
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From verse 2

  1. Job 12:3Rank 1 from verse 2
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    3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

  2. 2 Corinthians 11:16–18Rank 2 from verse 2
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    16I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

    17That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

    18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

  3. 2 Corinthians 12:11Rank 3 from verse 2
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    11I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

  4. Job 42:7Rank 4 from verse 2
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    7¶ And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

  5. 1 Corinthians 8:1–2Rank 5 from verse 2
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    1NOW as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

    2And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

From verse 3

  1. Isaiah 41:21Rank 1 from verse 3
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    21Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

  2. Isaiah 1:18–20Rank 2 from verse 3
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    18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

    19If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

    20But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

  3. Job 13:22Rank 3 from verse 3
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    22Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

  4. Job 31:35Rank 4 from verse 3
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    35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

  5. Job 9:3Rank 5 from verse 3
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    3If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

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Job 13:2

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

know

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To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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inferior

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Lower in place, rank, quality, or station; a person of lower station or rank.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Bullokar 1616

COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Job 13:3

COMBINED MEANING

speak

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Sense 1: To utter words or articulate sounds, or to use a language. Sense 2: To address or converse with someone. Sense 3: To state, declare, make mention of, or otherwise make a matter known.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

desire

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Sense 1: A wish, longing, request, pleasure, or thing wished for. Sense 2: To wish for, long for, request, or take pleasure in.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

reason

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A ground or cause; understanding or judgment; to think, discuss, or argue.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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1LO, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

2What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

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3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

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4But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

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