Job 31:35
Good News Translation
Will no one listen to what I am saying? I swear that every word is true. Let Almighty God answer me. If the charges my opponent brings against me were written down so that I could see them,

New Revised Standard Version
O that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) O that I had the indictment written by my adversary!

Contemporary English Version
Why doesn't God All-Powerful listen and answer? If God has something against me, let him speak up or put it in writing!

New American Bible
Oh, that I had one to hear my case: here is my signature: let the Almighty answer me! Let my accuser write out his indictment!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,

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Job 13:3 But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

Job 17:3 Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand fight against me.

Job 23:3-7 Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne? . . .

Job 33:6 Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed.

Job 38:1-3 Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said: . . .

Job 40:4,5 What can I answer, who hath spoken inconsiderately? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. . . .

Job 13:21,22 Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me. . . .

Psalm 26:1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my innocence: and I have put my trust in the Lord, and shall not be weakened.

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Job 13:24 Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?

Job 19:11,23,24 His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy. . . .

Job 33:10,11 Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath counted me for his enemy. . . .

Matthew 5:25 Be at agreement with thy adversary betimes, whilst thou art in the way with him: lest perhaps the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

Context
Job's Final Appeal
34If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door. 35Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,36That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?…
Cross References
Job 19:7
Behold I shall cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.

Job 27:7
Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.

Job 30:20
I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.

Job 30:24
But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.

Job 31:36
That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?

Job 35:14
Yea, when thou shalt say: He considereth not: be judged before him, and expect him.

Job 40:2
Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God, ought to answer him.

Job 31:34
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