Job 9:14
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
In Context
13God will not withdraw his anger; the helpers of Rahab do stoop under him.
15Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to mine adversary.
Cross References
Job 4:19How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth!
Job 9:32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
Job 23:4I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job 25:6How much less man, that is a worm! and the son of man, which 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 →