“Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.”
"But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God." Here Job's strategy crystallizes: he wishes to bypass the friends entirely and appeal directly to God. Rather than endure the friends' judgment, he demands a hearing before the ultimate judge. This verse introduces what will become the central theme of the dialogue—Job's desire for direct divine encounter, his willingness to risk everything on the chance that God will attend to his case.
Church Fathers on Job 13:3
What ye know, the same do I know also; I am not inferior to you. By which same words he made known what exceeding humility he had, who says that he was ‘not inferior’ to them, whose life by holy living he very far surpassed. For he makes good that ‘what they knew he knew,’ who by knowing the things of heaven transcended their earthly thoughts through the spirit of prophecy in addition. It goes on; Ver 3. Yet still I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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