Job 9:14
How much less do I — I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
In Context
13God doth not turn back His anger, Under Him bowed have proud helpers.
15Whom, though I were righteous, I answer not, For my judgment I make supplication.
Cross References
Job 4:19Also — the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)
Job 9:32But if a man like myself — I answer him, We come together into judgment.
Job 23:4I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill [with] arguments.
Job 25:6How much less man — a grub, And the son of man — 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 →