Job 9:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The Impossibility of Facing God in Court“How much less, then, can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him!

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 “God does not really live on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!
  • Job 4:19 : 19 how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
  • Job 9:3 : 3 If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.
  • Job 11:4-5 : 4 For you have said,‘My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.’ 5 But if only God would speak, if only he would open his lips against you,
  • Job 23:4 : 4 I would lay out my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
  • Job 23:7 : 7 There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.
  • Job 25:6 : 6 how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot– a son of man, who is only a worm!”
  • Job 33:5 : 5 Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!

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    15Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.

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    14Job has not directed his words to me, and so I will not reply to him with your arguments.

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    32For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

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    1Job’s Reply to Bildad Then Job answered:

    2“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

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    19Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

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    19If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say,‘Who will summon me?’

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    5I would know with what words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

    6Would he contend with me with great power? No, he would only pay attention to me.

    7There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

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    3But I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

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    14then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?

  • Job 40:2-5
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    2“Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”

    3Then Job answered the LORD:

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  • Job 9:34-35
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    34who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.

    35Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me.

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    22Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you respond to me.

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    12Now in this, you are not right– I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.

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    33Is it your opinion that God should recompense it, because you reject this? But you must choose, and not I, so tell us what you know.

    34Men of understanding say to me– any wise man listening to me says–

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    13God does not restrain his anger; under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed.

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    5Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!

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    3Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?

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    13“Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.

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    32If you have any words, reply to me; speak, for I want to justify you.

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    20I will speak, so that I may find relief; I will open my lips, so that I may answer.

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    17I too will answer my part, I too will explain what I know.

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    6“Listen now to my argument, and be attentive to my lips’ contentions.

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    14I am like a man who cannot hear and is incapable of arguing his defense.

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    20Should he be informed that I want to speak? If a man speaks, surely he will be swallowed up!