Bible verse
Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness.
Job 37:19 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 37.
15 Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?
16 Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
17 You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
18 can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?
19 Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness.
20 Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?
21 Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.
22 Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.
23 The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
KJV
Teach us what we shall say unto him; [for] we cannot order [our speech] by reason of darkness.
ASV
Teach us what we shall say unto him; For we cannot set our speech in order by reason of darkness.
ERV
Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
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