Job 9:15
For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
In Context
14How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?
16If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:38then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
Job 5:8However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
Job 10:2I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
Job 22:27You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.
Job 34:31Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.
Daniel 9:3So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
Matthew Henry on Job 9:15-22
14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? 15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. 16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. 17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. 18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. 19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall… Read the whole commentary →