Job 9:14

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?”

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BSBPD

“How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words to reason with him?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“How much less do I--I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 9:14 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.
  2. 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!
  3. Job 9:3If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
  4. Job 9:32For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
  5. Job 11:4You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’
  6. Job 23:4I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.
  7. Job 23:7Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
  8. Job 25:6how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
  9. Job 33:5Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.

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