Job 9:15
Good News Translation
Though I am innocent, all I can do is beg for mercy from God my judge.

New Revised Standard Version
Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.

Contemporary English Version
Even though I am innocent, I can only beg for mercy.

New American Bible
Even though I were right, I could not answer, but should rather beg for what was due me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge.

though

Job 10:15 And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.

1 Corinthians 4:4 For I am not conscious to myself of anything. Yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

I would

Job 5:8 Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:

Job 8:5 Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:

Job 10:2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so?

Job 22:27 Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.

Job 34:31,32 Seeing then I have spoken of God, I will not hinder thee in thy turn. . . .

1 Kings 8:38,39 Whatsoever curse or imprecation shall happen to any man of thy people Israel: when a man shall know the wound of his own heart, and shall spread forth his hands in this house; . . .

2 Chronicles 33:13 And he entreated him, and besought him earnestly: and he heard his prayer, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom, and Manasses knew that the Lord was God.

Jeremiah 31:9 They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them back in mercy: and I will bring them through the torrents of waters in a right way, and they shall not stumble in it: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Daniel 9:3,18 And I set my face to the Lord, my God, to pray and make supplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes. . . .

my judge

Job 23:7 Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to victory.

1 Peter 2:23 Who, when he was reviled, did not revile: when he suffered, he threatened not, but delivered himself to him that judged him unjustly.

Context
Job: How Can I Argue with God?
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.16And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.…
Cross References
Job 8:5
Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:

Job 9:16
And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.

Job 9:20
If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I would shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.

Job 9:21
Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant of, and I shall be weary of my life.

Job 10:15
And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.

Job 40:5
One thing I have spoken, which I wish I had not said: and another, to which I will add no more.

Job 9:14
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