Job 9:14
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words [to reason] with him?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
In Context
13God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
15Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.
Cross References
Job 4:19How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
Job 9:32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
Job 23:4I would set my case in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job 25:6How much less man, who is a worm! And the son of man, who is a worm!
Matthew Henry on Job 9:2-14
Job's Reply to Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. 4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? 5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. 6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. 7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth… Read the whole commentary →