Job 9:14
How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?
Majority Standard Bible
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 restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.
15For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
Cross References
Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
Job 9:32For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
Job 23:4I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job 25:6how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but 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 →