Job 9:15
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
King James Version
In Context
14How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
Cross References
1 Kings 8:38What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
Job 5:8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Job 10:2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Job 22:27Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
Job 34:31Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
Daniel 9:3And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and 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 →