Job 9:15
13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
- KJV
- Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
- WEB
- Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
- ASV
- Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.
- DARBY
- Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.
- BLB
- whom, if I were righteous, I could not answer; to my Judge I would plead for mercy.
- ÅB
- jeg som ikke kunne svare om jeg enn hadde rett, men måtte be min dommer om nåde!
- OTB
- Selv om jeg var uskyldig, kunne jeg ikke svare Ham;
jeg måtte be om nåde fra min Dommer. - B1930
- jeg som ikke kunde svare om jeg enn hadde rett, men måtte be min dommer om nåde!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 10:15
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
Read in contextJob 8:5
If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
Read in contextJob 22:27
Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
Read in contextJob 10:2
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Read in context1 Peter 2:23
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
Read in contextJob 5:8
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Read in context2 Chronicles 33:13
And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
Read in contextJob 23:7
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
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