Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Job 13:6 belongs to Job's answer to Zophar's first speech, expressing his appeal to God to hear his case as he answers the arguments made against him. It stands in Job's reply to the constant accusations, implied and otherwise, made by his friends, within the sequence of Job 8 through Job 27, whose accusations and responses belong together in reading. It occurs within the arguments between Job and his friends about the cause and purpose of human suffering, belonging to the great problems of overruling providence and sin and suffering.
The verse shows Job reasoning and pleading with his lips while under affliction, as God is disciplining him and bringing him through the fire of affliction, yet his three friends charge him with sin and declare his sufferings are because of sin. It calls for his friends to listen carefully to his reasoning and hear his pleas as he answers them about his suffering.
The verse presents prayer as pleading, bringing one's case before God and asking Him to hear it. It warns that humanity is still prone to misjudge its fellows in the same way Job's friends misjudged him.
Job 13:6 belongs to Job's answer to Zophar's first speech, expressing his appeal to God to hear his case as he answers the arguments made against him. It stands in Job's reply to the constant accusations, implied and otherwise, made by his friends, within the sequence of Job 8 through Job 27, whose accusations and responses belong together in reading. It occurs within the arguments between Job and his friends about the cause and purpose of human suffering, belonging to the great problems of overruling providence and sin and suffering.
The verse shows Job reasoning and pleading with his lips while under affliction, as God is disciplining him and bringing him through the fire of affliction, yet his three friends charge him with sin and declare his sufferings are because of sin. It calls for his friends to listen carefully to his reasoning and hear his pleas as he answers them about his suffering.
The verse presents prayer as pleading, bringing one's case before God and asking Him to hear it. It warns that humanity is still prone to misjudge its fellows in the same way Job's friends misjudged him.