Text -- Job 23:4 (NET)

23:4 I would lay out my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 23:4

¹ tn The word מִשְׁפָּט (mishpat) is normally “judgment; decision.” But in these contexts it refers to the legal case that Job will bring before God. With the verb עָרַךְ (’arakh, “to set in order; to lay out”) the whole image of drawing up a lawsuit is complete.