Job 9:14
How much less then could I answer him, and select my words [to contend] with him?
Leeser Tanakh
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: beneath him sink down the helpers of the proud.
Cross References
Job 4:19How much less in those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed till they come to be eaten by the moth?
Job 9:32For he is not a man, like me, that I could answer him, that we should enter together into a contest.
Job 23:4I would put in order before him my cause, and my mouth would I fill with arguments.
Job 25:6How much less the mortal, the mere worm? and the son of earth, the mere maggot?
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 →