| Job 9:3 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "If one wished to dispute with Him, He could not answer Him once in a thousand times. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | If he wished to debate with God, he wouldn't be able to answer one question in a thousand.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. |
| ASV: | If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand. |
| BBE: | If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions. |
| DBY: | If he shall choose to strive with him, he cannot answer him one thing of a thousand. |
| ERV: | If he be pleased to contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. |
| JPS: | If one should desire to contend with Him, he could not answer Him one of a thousand. |
| WBS: | If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. |
| WEB: | If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand. |
| YLT: | If he delight to strive with Him -- He doth not answer him one of a thousand. |
| Job 9:3 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 10:2 "I will say to God, 'Do not condemn me; Let me know why You contend with me.
Job 13:19 "Who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
Job 23:6 "Would He contend with me by the greatness of His power? No, surely He would pay attention to me.
Job 40:2 "Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who reproves God answer it." (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 9:3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a {b} thousand.
(b) Of a thousand things, which God could lay to his charge, man cannot answer him one. |
| WES: | 9:3 One - One accusation among a thousand which God shall produce against him. |
| MHC: | 9:1-13 In this answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God, when he denied himself to be a hypocrite; for how should man be just with God? Before him he pleaded guilty of sins more than could be counted; and if God should contend with him in judgment, he could not justify one out of a thousand, of all the thoughts, words, and actions of his life; therefore he deserved worse than all his present sufferings. When Job mentions the wisdom and power of God, he forgets his complaints. We are unfit to judge of God's proceedings, because we know not what he does, or what he designs. God acts with power which no creature can resist. Those who think they have strength enough to help others, will not be able to help themselves against it. |
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