Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
How should I then answer him? Or what words should I find out against him?
New American Standard Bible
And choose my words
King James Version
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
Holman Bible
or choose my arguments against Him?
International Standard Version
So how am I to answer him, choosing what I am to say to him?
A Conservative Version
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words [to reason] with him?
American Standard Version
How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words to reason with him?
Amplified
“How can I answer Him [and plead my case],
Choosing my words [to reason] with Him?
Bible in Basic English
How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?
Darby Translation
How much less shall I answer him, choose out my words to strive with him?
Julia Smith Translation
How much less shall I answer him, shall I choose my words with him?
King James 2000
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
Lexham Expanded Bible
{How much less} can I myself answer him? [How] can I choose my words with him,
Modern King James verseion
How much less shall I answer Him, and choose my arguments with Him?
NET Bible
"How much less, then, can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him!
New Heart English Bible
How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?
The Emphasized Bible
How much less that, I, should answer him, should choose my words with him?
Webster
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
World English Bible
How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?
Youngs Literal Translation
How much less do I -- I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
13 He is God, whose wrath no man may withstand: but the proudest of all must stoop under him. 14 How should I then answer him? Or what words should I find out against him? 15 Yea though I be righteous, yet will I not give him one word again, but meekly submit myself to my judge.
Names
Cross References
1 Kings 8:27
But indeed can God dwell on the earth? Behold: neither heaven, nor heaven above all heavens are able to contain thee - how much less then this house that I have built?
Job 4:19
How much more then shall they that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is but earth: which shall be consumed by the moth?
Job 9:3
If he will argue with him, he shall not be able to answer him unto one among a thousand.
Job 11:4-5
Wilt thou say unto God, 'The thing that I take in hand is perfect, and I am clean in thy sight'?
Job 23:4
to plead my cause before him, and to fill my mouth with arguments:
Job 23:7
He that is just shall enter disputation with him, and my judge shall deliver me forever.
Job 25:6
How much more then man, that is but corruption, and the son of man, which is but a worm?"
Job 33:5
If thou canst, then give me answer: prepare thyself to stand before me face to face.