Job 13:18

I have ordered my cause -literally. “judgment?” -משׁפטmı̂shpâṭ. The Septuagint renders it, “I am near (ἐγγύς εἰμίenguseimi) to my judgment,” or my trial. The meaning may be, that he had gone through the pleading, and had said what he wished in self-vindication, and he was willing to leave the cause with God, and did not doubt the issue. Or more probably, I think, the wordערכתי‛âraketı̂yshould be taken, as the wordידעתיyāda‛tı̂yis, in the present tense, meaning “I now set in order my cause; I enter on the pleading; I am confident that I shall so present it as to be declared righteous.” I know that I shall be justified -I have no doubt as to the issue.