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Job: How Can I Contend with God?

Job 9:16

In 11 translations

BSB
If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.
KJV
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
WEB
If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
ASV
If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice.
LSV
Though I had called and He answers me, I do not believe that He gives ear [to] my voice.
YLT
Though I had called and He answereth me, I do not believe that He giveth ear [to] my voice.
DBY
If I had called, and he had answered me, I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice, —
DRC
And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.
GNV
If I cry, and he answere me, yet woulde I not beleeue, that he heard my voyce.
JPS
If I had called, and He had answered me; yet would I not believe that He would hearken unto my voice —
LXXE
And if I should call and he should not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice.

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Original-language editions

WLC
אִם־קָרָ֥אתִי וַֽיַּעֲנֵ֑נִי לֹֽא־אַ֝אֲמִ֗ין כִּֽי־יַאֲזִ֥ין קוֹלִֽי׃
LXX-Br
Ἐάν τε καλέσω καὶ μὴ ὑπακούσῃ, οὐ πιστεύω ὅτι εἰσακήκοέ μου τῆς φωνῆς.

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  • Psalms 18:6In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.
  • Job 29:24If I smiled at them, they did not believe it; the light of my countenance was precious.
  • Psalms 126:1When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
  • Judges 6:13“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now…
  • Psalms 116:1–2I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice— my appeal for mercy. Because He has inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.
  • Luke 24:41While they were still in disbelief because of their joy and amazement, He asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”
  • Psalms 66:18–20If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer. Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld from me His…
  • Exodus 6:9Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.
  • Acts 12:14–16When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed that she forgot to open the gate, but ran inside and announced, “Peter is standing at the gate!” “You are out of your mind,” they told her. But when she kept…

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