Job 9:14

World English Bible (2000)

How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
  • Job 9:3 : 3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.
  • Job 11:4-5 : 4 For you say, 'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.' 5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,
  • Job 23:4 : 4 I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
  • Job 23:7 : 7 There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
  • Job 25:6 : 6 How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!"
  • Job 33:5 : 5 If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.

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    32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

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    19Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

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    76%

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    3"Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

  • Job 31:14
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  • Job 40:2-5
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    76%

    2"Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."

    3Then Job answered Yahweh,

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    5I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."

  • Job 9:34-35
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    75%

    34Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

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  • Job 13:22
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    22Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me.

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    12"Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

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  • Job 34:33-34
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    33Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

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    13"God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

  • Job 33:5
    72%

    5If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.

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