“Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.”
Job 31:35 (KJV) |
Job 31:35
From Job 31, in the Book of Job (Old Testament).
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If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.