Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
If he choose to contend with him, he cannot answer him, one of a thousand:
New American Standard Bible
He could not answer Him once in a thousand times.
King James Version
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Holman Bible
he could not answer God
International Standard Version
If one were to seek to argue with him, he won't be able to answer him even once in a thousand times.
A Conservative Version
If he is pleased to contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
American Standard Version
If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Amplified
“If one should want to contend or dispute with Him,
He could not answer Him once in a thousand times.
Bible in Basic English
If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.
Darby Translation
If he shall choose to strive with him, he cannot answer him one thing of a thousand.
Julia Smith Translation
If he shall desire to contend with him, he shall not answer him one from a thousand.
King James 2000
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Lexham Expanded Bible
If he wants to contend with him, he cannot answer him one [time] in a thousand.
Modern King James verseion
If he will argue with Him, he cannot answer Him one of a thousand.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If he will argue with him, he shall not be able to answer him unto one among a thousand.
NET Bible
If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.
New Heart English Bible
If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.
Webster
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
World English Bible
If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.
Youngs Literal Translation
If he delight to strive with Him -- He doth not answer him one of a thousand.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
2 Of a truth, I know that so it is, But how can a mortal be just with GOD? 3 If he choose to contend with him, he cannot answer him, one of a thousand: 4 Wise in heart, and alert in vigour, What man hath hardened himself against him, and prospered!
Names
Cross References
Job 10:2
I say unto GOD, Do not hold me guilty, Let me know, on what account thou contendest with me!
Job 40:2
Shall a reprover contend, with the Almighty? He that disputeth with GOD, let him answer it!
Job 9:20
If I should justify myself, mine own mouth, would condemn me, - I blameless? then had it shewn me perverse.
Job 9:32-33
For he is not a man like myself, whom I might answer, nor could we come together into judgment:
Job 23:3-7
Oh that I knew where I might find him! I would come even unto his dwelling-place;
Job 31:35-37
Oh that I had one to hear me, Lo! my crossmark, May, the Almighty, answer me! And would that, a book, mine opponent had written!
Job 33:13
Wherefore, against him, hast thou contended? For, with none of his reasons, will he respond.
Job 34:14-15
If he should set against him his heart, His spirit and his inspiration, unto himself he should withdraw.
Psalm 19:12
Mistakes, who perceiveth? From things that are hidden, acquit me:
Psalm 40:12
For there have closed in upon me, misfortunes beyond number, Mine iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see, They have become more than the hairs of my head, And, my courage, hath forsaken me!
Isaiah 57:15-16
For, thus, saith he that is high and lifted up - Inhabiting futurity, And, holy, is his name: A high and holy place, will I inhabit, Also with the crushed and lowly in spirit, To revive the spirit of the lowly, and To revive the heart of them who are crushed; -
Romans 9:20
O man! Who, nevertheless, art, thou, that art answering again unto God? Shall the thing formed say unto him that formed it - Why didst thou make me thus?
1 John 1:8
If we say - Sin, have we none! we are deceiving, ourselves, and, the truth, is not in us.
1 John 3:20
Because, if our own heart condemn us, greater, is God, than our heart, and perceiveth all things.