Job 9:14
How much less that, I, should answer him, should choose my words with him?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
In Context
15Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, to be absolved, I would make supplication.
Cross References
Job 4:19How much more the dwellers in houses of clay, which, in the dust, have their foundation, which are crushed sooner than a moth:
Job 9:32For he is not a man like myself, whom I might answer, nor could we come together into judgment:
Job 23:4I would set out, before him, a plea, and, my mouth, would I fill with arguments;
Job 25:6How much less a mortal who is a creeping thing? Or a son of the earth-born who is 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 →