Job 23:6-7 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Job 23:6-7: 23:6-7 Earlier, Job had believed that God was too strong for him to summon (9:19 ), so he had requested an arbiter (9:33-34 ) and asked God not to terrify him (13:21 ). Here he expressed more hope that God would grant him a fair hearing . • acquitted: Job did not want to be pardoned as a guilty man but to be declared innocent (13:18 ; see Pss 17:2-3 ; 26:1-3 ).

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‏ Job 23:6-7

Summary for Job 23:6-7: 23:6-7 ^a Earlier, Job had believed that God was too strong for him to summon (9:19 ^b), so he had requested an arbiter (9:33-34 ^c) and asked God not to terrify him (13:21 ^d). Here he expressed more hope that God would grant him a fair hearing.

• acquitted: Job did not want to be pardoned as a guilty man but to be declared innocent (13:18 ^e; see Pss 17:2-3 ^f; 26:1-3 ^g).