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Job’s Final Appeal

Job 31:14

In 11 translations

BSB
what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?
KJV
What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
WEB
what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?
ASV
What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
LSV
Then what do I do when God arises? And when He inspects, || What do I answer Him?
YLT
Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?
DBY
What then should I do when God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?El
DRC
For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?
GNV
What then shall I do when God standeth vp? and when he shall visit me, what shall I answere?
JPS
What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when He remembereth, what shall I answer Him?
LXXE
what then shall I do if the Lord should try me? and if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer?

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Original-language editions

WLC
וּמָ֣ה אֶֽ֭עֱשֶׂה כִּֽי־יָק֣וּם אֵ֑ל וְכִֽי־יִ֝פְקֹ֗ד מָ֣ה אֲשִׁיבֶֽנּוּ׃
LXX-Br
τί γὰρ ποιήσω ἐὰν ἔτασίν μου ποιῆται ὁ Κύριος; ἐὰν δὲ καὶ ἐπισκοπήν τινα, ἀπόκρισιν ποιήσομαι;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • James 2:13For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
  • Psalms 10:12–15Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless. Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.” But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to…
  • Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
  • Psalms 9:12For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
  • Psalms 9:19Rise up, O LORD, do not let man prevail; let the nations be judged in Your presence.
  • Psalms 44:21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
  • Zechariah 2:13Be silent before the LORD, all people, for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling.”
  • Hosea 9:7The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived— let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility.
  • Micah 7:4The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.
  • Job 10:2I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
  • Psalms 7:6Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.
  • Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
  • Job 9:32For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
  • Isaiah 10:3What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
  • Psalms 76:9when God rose up to judge, to save all the lowly of the earth. Selah
  • Mark 7:2and they saw some of His disciples eating with hands that were defiled—that is, unwashed.

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