Job 9:14
Good News Translation
So how can I find words to answer God?

New Revised Standard Version
How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?

Contemporary English Version
How, then, could I possibly argue my case with God?

New American Bible
How then could I give him any answer, or choose out arguments against him!

Douay-Rheims Bible
What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?

How much

Job 4:19 How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?

Job 25:6 How much more is man than rottenness and the son of man than a worm?

1 Kings 8:27 Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?

shall I

Job 11:4,5 For thou hast said: My word is pure, and I am clean in thy sight. . . .

choose

Job 23:4,7 I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints. . . .

Job 33:5 If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face.

Context
Job: How Can I Argue with God?
13God, whose wrath no man can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world. 14What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?15I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge.…
Cross References
Job 9:3
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.

Job 9:32
For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.

Job 37:19
Shew us what we may say to him: or we are wrapped up in darkness.

Job 9:13
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