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Job 23:4-5

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23:4 I would lay out my case 1  before him

and fill my mouth with arguments.

23:5 I would know with what words 2  he would answer me,

and understand what he would say to me.

1 tn The word מִשְׁפָּט (mishpat) is normally “judgment; decision.” But in these contexts it refers to the legal case that Job will bring before God. With the verb עָרַךְ (’arakh, “to set in order; to lay out”) the whole image of drawing up a lawsuit is complete.

2 tn Heb “the words he would answer me.”



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