Job 9:3

In 11 translations

BSB

If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.Or If God wished to contend with someone

KJV

If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

WEB

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

ASV

If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

LSV

If he delights to strive with Him—He does not answer him one of a thousand.

YLT

If he delight to strive with Him — He doth not answer him one of a thousand.

DBY

If he shall choose to strive with him, he cannot answer him one thing of a thousand.

DRC

If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.

GNV

If I would dispute with him, hee could not answere him one thing of a thousand.

JPS

If one should desire to contend with Him, he could not answer Him one of a thousand.

LXXE

For if he would enter into judgment with him, God would not hearken to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.

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WLC

אִם־יַ֭חְפֹּץ לָרִ֣יב עִמּ֑וֹ לֹֽא־יַ֝עֲנֶ֗נּוּ אַחַ֥ת מִנִּי־אָֽלֶף׃

LXX-Br

Ἐὰν γὰρ βούληται κριθῆναι αὐτῷ, οὐ μὴ ὑπακούσῃ αὐτῷ, ἵνα μὴ ἀντείπῃ πρὸς ἕνα λόγον αὐτοῦ ἐκ χιλίων.

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• Job 10:2I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
• Job 40:2“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”
• Romans 9:20But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
• Job 9:32–33For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court. Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.
• Psalms 40:12For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
• 1 John 1:8If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• Job 23:3–7If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat. I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments. I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say. Would He contend…
• Job 9:20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
• Job 33:13Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
• Psalms 19:12Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.
• 1 John 3:20Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.
• Job 31:35–37(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment. Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and wear it like a crown. I would give account of all my…
• Isaiah 57:15–16For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive…
• Job 34:14–15If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath, all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

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