plead
Job 9:34
He doth turn aside from off me his rod, And His terror doth not make me afraid,
Job 9:35
I speak, and do not fear Him, But I am not right with myself.
Job 13:3
Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.
Job 13:22
And call Thou, and I -- I answer, Or -- I speak, and answer Thou me.
Job 23:3-7
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O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,
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I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill [with] arguments.
5
I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me.
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In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth [it] in me.
7
There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.
Job 31:35
Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.
Job 40:1-5
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And Jehovah doth answer Job, and saith: --
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Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.
3
And Job answereth Jehovah, and saith: --
4
Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.
5
Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.
Ecclesiastes 6:10
What [is] that which hath been? already is its name called, and it is known that it [is] man, and he is not able to contend with him who is stronger than he.
Isaiah 45:9
Woe [to] him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, 'What dost thou?' And thy work, 'He hath no hands?'
Romans 9:20
nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form [it], Why me didst thou make thus?