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רִיב H7378
rîyb — adversary, chide, complain, contend, debate, [idiom] ever, [idiom] lay wait, plead, rebuke, strive, [idiom] thoroughly.. Appears in 58 verses. Full definition →
Job 23:6
Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
Job 31:13
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
Job 33:13
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
Job 40:2
Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him ? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
Psalms 35:1
Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
Psalms 43:1
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Psalms 74:22
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Psalms 103:9
He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger forever.
Psalms 119:154
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
Proverbs 3:30
Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
Proverbs 22:23
For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
Proverbs 23:11
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
Proverbs 25:8
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
Proverbs 25:9
Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself ; and discover not a secret to another:
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isaiah 3:13
The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
Isaiah 27:8
In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
Isaiah 45:9
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Isaiah 49:25
But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
Isaiah 50:8
He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
Isaiah 51:22
Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
Jeremiah 2:9
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children' s children will I plead.
Jeremiah 2:29
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?