Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
whom I cannot answer, even though I am righteous? From my judge I must implore grace.
New American Standard Bible
I would have to
King James Version
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
Holman Bible
I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
International Standard Version
Even if I'm in the right, I cannot answer him. I can only appeal for mercy.
A Conservative Version
Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.
American Standard Version
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.
Amplified
For though I were righteous, I could not answer.
I must appeal for mercy to my Opponent and Judge.
Bible in Basic English
Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me.
Darby Translation
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.
Julia Smith Translation
Whom, if I was just, I shall not answer; I will make supplication to my judge.
King James 2000
For, though I were righteous, yet could I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
Modern King James verseion
Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer; I seek mercy for my judgment.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yea though I be righteous, yet will I not give him one word again, but meekly submit myself to my judge.
NET Bible
Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.
New Heart English Bible
Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
The Emphasized Bible
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, to be absolved, I would make supplication.
Webster
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
World English Bible
Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
Youngs Literal Translation
Whom, though I were righteous, I answer not, For my judgment I make supplication.
Interlinear
Tsadaq
`anah
Chanan
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
14 {How much less} can I myself answer him? [How] can I choose my words with him, 15 whom I cannot answer, even though I am righteous? From my judge I must implore grace. 16 If I summon [him], and he should answer me, I do not believe that he will listen to my voice--
Names
Cross References
Job 8:5
If you yourself would seek God, then you would plead to Shaddai for grace.
Job 10:15
If I am guilty, woe to me! But if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head; [I am] filled [with] shame, and [just] look [at] my misery!
1 Kings 8:38-39
any prayer or any plea which is [offered] by any person for all of your people Israel, who each knows the infestation of his [own] heart and spreads out his palms to this house,
2 Chronicles 33:13
and prayed to him. And God responded to him and heard his plea and let him return to Jerusalem to his kingdom. And Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.
Job 5:8
"But I myself will seek God, and to God I would commit my cause.
Job 10:2
I will say to God, 'You should not condemn me; let me know why you contend [against] me.
Job 22:27
You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows.
Job 23:7
There an upright person could reason with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.
Job 34:31-32
"Indeed, does anyone say to God, 'I have endured [chastisement]; I will not act corruptly [again];
Jeremiah 31:9
With weeping they will come, and with pleas for mercy I will bring them; I will let them walk by streams of water in a straight path. They will not stumble in it, for I have become to Israel a father, and Ephraim, he [is] my firstborn."
Daniel 9:3
Then I turned my face to the Lord God to seek [him] [by] prayer and pleas for mercy, in fasting and [in] sackcloth and ashes.
Daniel 9:18
Incline your ear, my God, and listen; open your eyes and look at our desolation and the city that is called [by] your name, for we [are] not presenting our pleas for mercy {before you} because of our righteousness, but [rather] because of your great compassion.
1 Corinthians 4:4
For I am conscious of nothing against myself, but not by this am I vindicated. But the one who judges me is the Lord.
1 Peter 2:23
who [when he] was reviled, did not revile in return; [when] suffering, he did not threaten, but entrusted [himself] to the one who judges justly,