Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer 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?
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?
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?
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
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
13 If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me, 14 what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him? 15 Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 9:32
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
Job 10:2
I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why thou contend with me.
Psalm 7:6
Arise, O LORD, in thine anger. Lift up thyself against the rage of my adversaries, and awake for me the justice thou have commanded.
Psalm 9:12
For he who makes inquiry for blood remembers them. He does not forget the cry of the poor.
Psalm 9:19
Arise, O LORD, let not man prevail. Let the nations be judged in thy sight.
Psalm 10:12-15
Arise, O LORD, O God, lift up thy hand. Do not forget the poor.
Psalm 44:21
will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Psalm 76:9
when God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
Psalm 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant. For in thy sight no man living is righteous.
Isaiah 10:3
And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? To whom will ye flee for help? And where will ye leave your glory?
Hosea 9:7
The days of visitation have come. The days of recompense have come. Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the abundance of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great.
Micah 7:4
The best of them is as a brier. The most upright is [worse] than a thorn hedge. The day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, has come. Now shall be their perplexity.
Zechariah 2:13
Be silent, all flesh, before LORD, for he has arisen out of his holy habitation.
Mark 7:2
And having seen some of his disciples eating their loaves with profane hands, that is, unwashed, they accused them.
Romans 3:19
Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God.
James 2:13
For the judgment is merciless to him who did no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.