Job 9:14
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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.

Lexicon
How
אַ֭ף (’ap̄)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 637: Meaning accession, yea, adversatively though

then
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

can I
אָנֹכִ֣י (’ā·nō·ḵî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 595: I

answer Him
אֶֽעֱנֶ֑נּוּ (’e·‘ĕ·nen·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6030: To answer, respond

or choose
אֶבְחֲרָ֖ה (’eḇ·ḥă·rāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 977: To try, select

my arguments
דְבָרַ֣י (ḏə·ḇā·ray)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

against Him?
עִמּֽוֹ׃ (‘im·mōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5973: With, equally with


Additional Translations
How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words to reason with him?

Oh then that he would hearken to me, or judge my cause.

How much less shall I answer him, choose out my words [to strive] with him?

How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

How much less do I -- I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?
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