Job’s Plea to God
Job 10:2
In 11 translations
- BSB
- I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
- KJV
- I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
- WEB
- I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
- ASV
- I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me.
- LSV
- I say to God, Do not condemn me, || Let me know why You strive [with] me.
- YLT
- I say unto God, 'Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive [with] me.
- DBY
- I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with me.Eloah
- DRC
- I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so.
- GNV
- I will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.
- JPS
- I will say unto God: Do not condemn me; make me know wherefore Thou contendest with me.
- LXXE
- And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore hast thou thus judged me?
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אֹמַ֣ר אֶל־אֱ֭לוֹהַּ אַל־תַּרְשִׁיעֵ֑נִי הֽ֝וֹדִיעֵ֗נִי עַ֣ל מַה־תְּרִיבֵֽנִי׃
- LXX-Br
- καὶ ἐρῶ πρὸς Κύριον, μή με ἀσεβεῖν δίδασκε· καὶ διατί με οὕτως ἔκρινας;
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 139:23–24Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
- Job 9:29Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
- Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
- Lamentations 3:40–42Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD. Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven: “We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
- Psalms 38:1–8O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath. For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me. There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no…
- 1 Corinthians 11:31–32Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
- Romans 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
- Psalms 6:1–4O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath. Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony. My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long?…
- Lamentations 5:16–17The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
- Job 34:31–32Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more. Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’
- Psalms 25:7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.
- Psalms 109:21But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; deliver me by the goodness of Your loving devotion.
- Job 8:5–6But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy, if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
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