Job 13:3

Surely I would speak to the Almighty -I would desire to carry my cause directly up to God, and spread out my reasons before him. This Job often professed to desire; seeJob 9:34-35. He felt that God would appreciate the arguments which he would urge, and would do justice to them. His friends he felt were censorious and severe. They neither did justice to his feelings, nor to his motives. They perverted his words and arguments; and instead of consoling him, they only aggravated his trials, and caused him to sink into deeper sorrows. But he felt if he could carry his cause to God, he would do ample justice to him and his cause.