Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And what shall I do when God shall rise up? And when he shall review, what shall I turn back to him?
New American Standard Bible
And when He calls me to account, what will I answer Him?
King James Version
What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
Holman Bible
How should I answer Him when He calls me to account?
International Standard Version
what will I do when God stands up to act? When he asks the questions, how will I answer him?
A Conservative Version
what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him?
American Standard Version
What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
Amplified
What then could I do when God arises [to judge me]?
When He calls me to account, what will I answer Him?
Bible in Basic English
What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?
Darby Translation
What then should I do when God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?
King James 2000
What then shall I do when God rises up? and when he comes, what shall I answer him?
Lexham Expanded Bible
then what shall I do when God rises up? And when he enquires, how shall I answer him?
Modern King James verseion
what then shall I do when God rises up? And when He calls me to account, what shall I answer Him?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But seeing that God will sit in judgment, what shall I do? And for so much as he will needs visit me, what answer shall I give him?
NET Bible
then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?
New Heart English Bible
What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?
The Emphasized Bible
What then could I have done when GOD rose up? And, when he visited, what could I have answered him?
Webster
What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
World English Bible
What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?
Youngs Literal Translation
Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?
Themes
Business life » Employers » Consideration for employees
Duty » Masters' » Consideration for employees
Employers » Duties of » Consideration for employees
Injustice » Specially to be avoided towards » Servants
Master » Good master, instances of » Job
Master's duty » Consideration for employees
Respect of persons » God does not have
Social duties » Masters' duties » Consideration for employees
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
13 If I shall despise the judgment of my servant and my maid in their contending with me; 14 And what shall I do when God shall rise up? And when he shall review, what shall I turn back to him? 15 Did not he making me in the womb, make him? And he will prepare us in one belly.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 9:32
For not a man as I; I shall answer him, we shall come together in judgment
Job 10:2
Saying to God, Thou wilt not condemn me; make known to me for what thou wilt contend with me.
Psalm 7:6
Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger, lift up thyself for the wrath of mine enemies: and awake to me the judgment thou didst command.
Psalm 9:12
For he sought out bloods, be remembered them: he forget not the cry of the humble.
Psalm 9:19
Arise, O Jehovah; man shall not be strengthened: the nations shall be judged before thee.
Psalm 10:12-15
Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thine hand: thou wilt not forget the poor.
Psalm 44:21
Will not God search this out? for he knew the secrets of the heart
Psalm 76:9
In God's rising up to judgment, to save all the poor of the earth. Silence.
Psalm 143:2
And thou wilt not come into judgment with thy servant, for all living shall not be justified before thee.
Isaiah 10:3
And what will ye do for the day of reviewing, and for the tempest coming from far off? upon whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
Hosea 9:7
The days of oversight came, the days of recompense came; Israel knew: the prophet is foolish, the man of the spirit, raving, for the multitude of thine iniquity and great destruction.
Micah 7:4
Their good as the thorn, the upright more than the thorn-hedge: the day of thy watchings and thy reviewings came; now shall be their perplexity.
Zechariah 2:13
Be silent, all flesh, from the face of Jehovah: for he was raised from the habitation of his holiness.
Mark 7:2
And having seen some of his disciples with common hands, that is, unwashed, eating loaves, they rebuked.
Romans 3:19
And we know that whatever says the law, it speaks to them in the law: that every mouth be shut, and all the world be culpable to God.
James 2:13
For unpropitiated judgment to him not doing mercy; and mercy boasteth against judgment.