Job 37:20
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Who shall tell him the things I speak? even if a man shall speak, he shall be swallowed up.

Shall it

Psalm 139:4 And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.

Matthew 12:36,37 But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment. . . .

surely

Job 6:3 As the sand of the sea, this would appear heavier: therefore, my words are full of sorrow:

Job 11:7,8 Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly? . . .

Context
Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty
19Shew us what we may say to him: or we are wrapped up in darkness. 20Who shall tell him the things I speak? even if a man shall speak, he shall be swallowed up.21But now they see not the light: the air on a sudden shall be thickened into clouds, and the wind shall pass and drive them away.…
Cross References
Job 37:19
Shew us what we may say to him: or we are wrapped up in darkness.

Job 37:21
But now they see not the light: the air on a sudden shall be thickened into clouds, and the wind shall pass and drive them away.

Lexicon
Should He be told
הַֽיְסֻפַּר־ (hay·sup·par-)
Verb - Pual - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5608: To count, recount, relate

that
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

I want to speak?
אֲדַבֵּ֑ר (’ă·ḏab·bêr)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

Would a man
אִ֝֗ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

ask
אָ֥מַר (’ā·mar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

to be swallowed up?
יְבֻלָּֽע׃ (yə·ḇul·lā‘)
Verb - Pual - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1104: To swallow down, swallow up, engulf


Additional Translations
Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.

Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

Have I a book or a scribe my me, that I may stand and put man to silence?

Shall it be told him if I would speak? if a man [so] say, surely he shall be swallowed up.

Shall it be told him that I would speak? or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

Shall it be told him that I speak? If a man shall speak, surely he will be swallowed up.

Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

Is it declared to Him that I speak? If a man hath spoken, surely he is swallowed up.
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