Job 9:14
How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
In Context
13God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.
Cross References
Job 4:19How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
Job 9:32For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.
Job 23:4I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.
Job 25:6How much less man who is an insect, 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 →