Job 11:5

WEB

⁵But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

KJV

⁵But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

BSB

⁵But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,

FBV

⁵If only God would speak up and tell you directly,

Extra References

Job 38:1-2

¹Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, ²“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

³Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat! ⁴I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me. ⁶Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me. ⁷There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

Job 40:1-5

¹Moreover the LORD answered Job, ²“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

³Then Job answered the LORD, ⁴“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. ⁵I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

Job 31:35

³⁵oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!

Job 33:6-18

⁶Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay. ⁷Behold, my terror will not make you afraid, neither will my pressure be heavy on you. ⁸“Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying, ⁹‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me. ¹⁰Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy. ¹¹He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’ ¹²“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man. ¹³Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters? ¹⁴For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention. ¹⁵In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed, ¹⁶then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction, ¹⁷that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. ¹⁸He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

Job 42:7

⁷It was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

Job 40:8

⁸Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?