Job 13 (WEB)

God

Also called
LORD, Lord, Father, hosts, Almighty, Holy, GOD, Saviour, last, JEHOVAH, Judge, father, lawgiver, Fathers, dayspring, host, Ancient
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Yahweh, the Personal Name of God

Word Study | Israel Loken • Hershel Wayne House
יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh ·Strong's H3068

Strictly speaking, the only personal name of God belonging to Him alone, and the most significant name of God found in the Old Testament (over 5000 times).  Yahweh is the approximate (and likely) pronunciation of the tetragrammaton, the four-letter word YHWH.  When Moses asked what His name was to take back to the Hebrews in Egypt, God replied, “I AM THAT I AM (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶֽהְיֶ֑ה ehyeh esher ehyeh): and he said, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, I AM (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה, ehyeh, 1st person singular, giving God's declaration of His name) has sent me to you” (Exod 3:14).  Thus God revealed to Moses the very essential meaning of His name as Yahweh (יְהוָ֞ה, Yahweh, 3rd person singular, the response of the people of God, He is).  There is a strong indication that Jesus (or Yeshua, Yahweh is salvation) used this name and its divine implication to apply to himself when he said, “Before Abraham was, I AM” (ἐγὼ εἰμί, egō eimi) (John 8:58).  Thus, the very Person who spoke to Moses out of the burning bush was the very same Person who addressed the startled Jews in the Gospel of John.

For a more complete discussion of the personal name of God, see the passage in Exodus in which He reveals His name to Moses, Exodus 3:14, 15.

A Name of God (אֱלֹהִים; 'elohim)

Word Study | Hershel Wayne House
אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym ·Strong's H430

This is a generic name for the divine being. In the Hebrew Bible, the word is regularly used in the plural in reference to the God of Israel but in regard to His majesty or intensity. The plural has a third person singular with the God of Israel, but a third plural with foreign deities.

Abba, Father

Word Study | Hershel Wayne House • Steve Stanley
Ἀββᾶ Abbâ ·Strong's G5

This Aramaic term is used only three times in the NT and approximately 80 times in the writings of the early church fathers when quoting or paraphrasing Jesus’ words. It is translated by the very next word in this verse as ὁ πατήρ (ho pater) “the Father,” as it is in all three NT uses. Jesus spoke in Aramaic, and Hebrew, both languages being used in Israel. In Jesus’ day, abba was used for the father in the family, and was a customary title for God in prayer among the Jews. It was eventually taken over by Greek-speaking Christians as a liturgical formula. Some posit that abba is equivalent to “daddy,” an American English term for “father.” This assumes that the American informality expressed by children toward their father would have an analogy in Jesus’ culture, an assumption difficult to sustain. It is, therefore, not appropriate to refer to God as “daddy.” Linguistically, then, abba means "father" in Hebrew, Greek and English. It must be noted, however, that while “father” is a term of respect in biblical literature, it is also a term of affection, very deep and abiding affection. With His use of “Abba,” Jesus expresses His respectful and intimate relationship with His Heavenly Father in prayer, a wonderful example for all believers.

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Job 13 (WEB)

1“Behold, my eye has seen all this.

My ear has heard and understood it.

2What you know, I know also.

I am not inferior to you.

3“Surely I would speak to the Almighty.

I desire to reason with God.

4But you are forgers of lies.

You are all physicians of no value.

5Oh that you would be completely silent!

Then you would be wise.

6Hear now my reasoning.

Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

7Will you speak unrighteously for God,

and talk deceitfully for him?

8Will you show partiality to him?

Will you contend for God?

9Is it good that he should search you out?

Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

10He will surely reprove you

if you secretly show partiality.

11Won’t his majesty make you afraid

and his dread fall on you?

12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes.

Your defenses are defenses of clay.

13“Be silent!

Leave me alone, that I may speak.

Let come on me what will.

14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth,

and put my life in my hand?

15Behold, he will kill me.

I have no hope.

Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

16This also will be my salvation,

that a godless man will not come before him.

17Listen carefully to my speech.

Let my declaration be in your ears.

18See now, I have set my cause in order.

I know that I am righteous.

19Who is he who will contend with me?

For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit.

20“Only don’t do two things to me,

then I will not hide myself from your face:

21withdraw your hand far from me,

and don’t let your terror make me afraid.

22Then call, and I will answer,

or let me speak, and you answer me.

23How many are my iniquities and sins?

Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

24Why do you hide your face,

and consider me your enemy?

25Will you harass a driven leaf?

Will you pursue the dry stubble?

26For you write bitter things against me,

and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

27You also put my feet in the stocks,

and mark all my paths.

You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

28though I am decaying like a rotten thing,

like a garment that is moth-eaten.

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