Job 9:19
If we speake of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
In Context
18He wil not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.
Cross References
Job 9:4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath bene fierce against him and hath prospered?
Job 31:35Oh that I had some to heare me! beholde my signe that the Almightie will witnesse for me: though mine aduersary should write a booke against me,
Job 36:17But thou art ful of the iudgement of the wicked, though iudgement and equitie maintaine all things.
Psalms 62:11God spake once or twise, I haue heard it, that power belongeth vnto God,
Matthew 6:13And leade vs not into tentation, but deliuer vs from euill: for thine is the kingdome, and the power, and the glorie for euer. Amen.
1 Corinthians 10:22Doe we prouoke the Lord to anger? are we stronger then he?
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 →