Job: How Can I Contend with God?
Job 9:14
In 11 translations
- BSB
- How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?
- KJV
- How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
- WEB
- How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?
- ASV
- How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words to reason with him?
- LSV
- How much less do I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?
- YLT
- How much less do I — I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?
- DBY
- How much less shall I answer him, choose out my words [to strive] with him?
- DRC
- What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?
- GNV
- Howe much lesse shall I answere him? or howe should I finde out my words with him?
- JPS
- How much less shall I answer Him, and choose out my arguments with Him?
- LXXE
- Oh then that he would hearken to me, or judge my cause.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אַ֭ף כִּֽי־אָנֹכִ֣י אֶֽעֱנֶ֑נּוּ אֶבְחֲרָ֖ה דְבָרַ֣י עִמּֽוֹ׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἐὰν δέ μου ὑπακούσεται, ἤ διακρίνει τὰ ῥήματά μου.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 23:4I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.
- Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
- Job 23:7Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
- Job 33:5Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.
- Job 25:6how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
- Job 9:3If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
- 1 Kings 8:27But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
- Job 11:4–5You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’ But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- Content check: text resembles KJV Job.9.16 (word overlap 0.36) more than Job.9.14 (0.00); mapping unverified.
- Content check: text resembles KJV Job.9.16 (word overlap 0.36) more than Job.9.14 (0.00); mapping unverified. (transferred from brenton)