Job 9:19
If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
Updated King James Version
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 will not suffer me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Cross References
Job 9:4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and has prospered?
Job 31:35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Job 36:17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.
Psalms 62:11God has spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongs unto God.
Matthew 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
1 Corinthians 10:22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than 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 →