Job 9:14
How much less do I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?
Literal Standard 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 does not turn back His anger, || Proud helpers have bowed under Him.
15Whom, though I were righteous, I do not answer, || For my judgment I make supplication.
Cross References
Job 4:19Also—the inhabitants of houses of clay || (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, || They bruise them before a moth).
Job 9:32But if a man like myself—I answer Him, || We come together into judgment.
Job 23:4I arrange the cause before Him, || And fill my mouth [with] arguments.
Job 25:6How much less man—a grub, || And the son of man—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 →