Verse 14

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

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!