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Job 9

Job 9:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Whom, though I were righteous
tsadaq (Hebrew #6663)
to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)
KJV usage: cleanse, clear self, (be, do) just(-ice, -ify, -ify self), (be turn to) righteous(-ness).
Pronounce: tsaw-dak'
Origin: a primitive root
, yet would I not answer
`anah (Hebrew #6030)
properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extens. to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce
KJV usage: give account, afflict (by mistake for 6031), (cause to, give) answer, bring low (by mistake for 6031), cry, hear, Leannoth, lift up, say, X scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also 1042, 1043.
Pronounce: aw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
, butp I would make supplication
chanan (Hebrew #2603)
properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (i.e. move to favor by petition)
KJV usage: beseech, X fair, (be, find, shew) favour(-able), be (deal, give, grant (gracious(-ly), intreat, (be) merciful, have (shew) mercy (on, upon), have pity upon, pray, make supplication, X very.
Pronounce: khaw-nan'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2583)
to my judge
shaphat (Hebrew #8199)
to judge, i.e. pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: + avenge, X that condemn, contend, defend, execute (judgment), (be a) judge(-ment), X needs, plead, reason, rule.
Pronounce: shaw-fat'
Origin: a primitive root
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Job 34:31• 31For hath he said unto *God, I bear chastisement, I will not offend; (Job 34:31)

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Job 10:15• 15If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being so full of shame, and beholding mine affliction;-- (Job 10:15)
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1 Cor. 4:4• 4For I am conscious of nothing in myself; but I am not justified by this: but he that examines me is the Lord. (1 Cor. 4:4)
I would.
Job 5:8• 8But as for me I will seek unto *God, and unto God commit my cause; (Job 5:8)
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Job 8:5• 5If thou seek earnestly unto *God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty, (Job 8:5)
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Job 10:2• 2I will say unto +God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with me. (Job 10:2)
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Job 22:27• 27Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows; (Job 22:27)
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Job 34:31‑32• 31For hath he said unto *God, I bear chastisement, I will not offend;
 32What I see not, teach thou me; if I have done wrong, I will do so no more? (Job 34:31‑32)
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1 Kings 8:38‑39• 38what prayer, what supplication soever be made by any man, of all thy people Israel, when they shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house;
 39then hear thou in the heavens, the settled place of thy dwelling, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou, thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men), (1 Kings 8:38‑39)
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2 Chron. 33:13• 13and prayed to him. And he was intreated of him and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah, he was God. (2 Chron. 33:13)
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Jer. 31:9• 9They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them; I will cause them to walk by water-brooks, in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble; for I will be a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. (Jer. 31:9)
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Dan. 9:3,18• 3And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes;
 18Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolations, and the city that is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee because of our righteousnesses, but because of thy manifold mercies. (Dan. 9:3,18)
my judge.
Job 23:7• 7There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge. (Job 23:7)
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1 Peter 2:23• 23who, when reviled, reviled not again; when suffering, threatened not; but gave himself over into the hands of him who judges righteously; (1 Peter 2:23)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.