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Job 11:5

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “But would that God might speak, And open His lips against you,
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— But Oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against thee,
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— But Oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— But oh that +God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— But, in very deed, oh that GOD would speak, that he would open his lips with thee:
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— And I wish that God would speak with thee, and would open his lips to thee,
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— But, oh that God would speake and open his lippes against thee!
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— But, O that God would speake, and open his lippes against thee,
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you;
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— But oh that the Lord would speak to thee, and open his lips to thee!
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— But oh that Eloah would speak, and open his lips against thee;

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
But 199
{0199} Prime
אוּלָם
'uwlam
{oo-lawm'}
Apparently a variation of H0194; however or on the contrary.
oh that y5414
[5414] Standard
נָתַן
nathan
{naw-than'}
A primitive root; to give, used with great latitude of application (put, make, etc.).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
x4310
(4310) Complement
מִי
miy
{me}
An interrogitive pronoun of persons, as H4100 is of things, who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix.
´Élôåh אֱלוֹהַ 433
{0433} Prime
אֱלוֹהַּ
'elowahh
{el-o'-ah}
(The second form is rare); probably prolonged (emphatically) from H0410; a deity or the deity.
would x5414
(5414) Complement
נָתַן
nathan
{naw-than'}
A primitive root; to give, used with great latitude of application (put, make, etc.).
speak, 1696
{1696} Prime
דִּבֵּר
dabar
{daw-bar'}
A primitive root; perhaps properly to arrange; but used figuratively (of words) to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue.
z8763
<8763> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840)
Mood - Infinitive (See H8812)
Count - 790
and open 6605
{6605} Prime
פָּתַח
pathach
{paw-thakh'}
A primitive root; to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically to loosen, begin, plough, carve.
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
his lips 8193
{8193} Prime
שָׂפָה
saphah
{saw-faw'}
(The second form is in dual and plural); Probably from H5595 or H8192 through the idea of termination (compare H5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication language; by analogy a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.).
against x5973
(5973) Complement
עִם
`im
{eem}
From H6004; adverb or preposition, with (that is, in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English).
thee;
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

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Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Job 11:1-6.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 11:5

Speak — Plead with thee according to thy desire: he would soon put thee to silence. We are commonly ready with great assurance to interest God in our quarrels. But they are not always in the right, who are most forward, to appeal to his judgment, and prejudge it against their antagonists.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance

Job 23:3-7 Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat! ... There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
Job 31:35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] mine adversary had written a book.
Job 33:6-18 Behold, I [am] according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay. ... He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
Job 38:1-2 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, ... Who [is] this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 40:1-5 Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said, ... Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
Job 40:8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
Job 42:7 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].
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