Job 9:14

What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

13God, whose wrath no mall can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.

15I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge.

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Cross References

Job 4:19How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?

Job 9:32For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.

Job 23:4I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints.

Job 25:6How much less man that is rottenness 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 →

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