Job 23:4
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
American King James Version (AKJV)
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
American Standard Version (ASV)
I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.
Webster's Revision
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
World English Bible
I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
English Revised Version (ERV)
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Barnes's Job 23:4 Bible Commentary
I would order my cause before him - Compare the notes at Isaiah 43:26. That is, I would arrange my arguments, or plead my cause, as one does in a court of justice. I would suggest the considerations which would show that I am not guilty in the sense charged by my friends, and that notwithstanding my calamities, I am the real friend of God.
And fill my mouth with arguments - Probably he means that he would appeal to the evidence furnished by a life of benevolence and justice, that he was not a hypocrite or a man of distinguished wickedness, as his friends maintained.
