Parallel Verses
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.
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
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.
The Emphasized Bible
If he choose to contend with him, he cannot answer him, one of 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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`anah
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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 "Indeed, I'm fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with God? 3 If one were to seek to argue with him, he won't be able to answer him even once in a thousand times. 4 He is wise in heart and strong in will who can be stubborn against him and succeed?
Names
Cross References
Job 10:2
I'll say to God, "Don't condemn me! Let me know why you are fighting me.
Job 40:2
"Should the one who is fighting the Almighty find fault with him? Let God's accuser answer."
Job 9:20
Though I'm in the right, my own mouth will condemn me; though I'm blameless, he'll pronounce me as guilty.
Job 9:32-33
He's not a man like me, so that I can answer him, or that we can enter into litigation with one another.
Job 23:3-7
If only I knew where to find him, I would visit him where he has taken his seat.
Job 31:35-37
"Who will grant me a hearing? Here's my signature let the Almighty answer! Since my adversary indicted me,
Job 33:13
Why are you arguing with him? He doesn't have to give explanations for what he does to you!
Job 34:14-15
If he were to decide to do so, that is, to take back to himself his spirit and breath of life,
Psalm 19:12
Who can detect his own mistake? Cleanse me from hidden sin.
Psalm 40:12
Innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me so that I cannot see. They are more in number than the hair on my head, and my courage has forsaken me.
Isaiah 57:15-16
"For this is what the high and lofty One says, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "He lives in the height and in holiness, and also with the one who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Romans 9:20
On the contrary, who are you mere man that you are to talk back to God? Can an object that was molded say to the one who molded it, "Why did you make me like this?"
1 John 1:8
If we say that we do not have any sin, we are deceiving ourselves and we're not being truthful to ourselves.
1 John 3:20
If our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts and knows everything.