Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
What then could I have done when GOD rose up? And, when he visited, what could I have answered 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?
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?
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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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
13 If I refused the right of my servant, or my handmaid, when they contended with me, 14 What then could I have done when GOD rose up? And, when he visited, what could I have answered him? 15 Did not he who, in the womb, made me, make him? And is not he who formed us in the body one?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 9:32
For he is not a man like myself, whom I might answer, nor could we come together into judgment:
Job 10:2
I say unto GOD, Do not hold me guilty, Let me know, on what account thou contendest with me!
Psalm 7:6
Rise! Yahweh! in thine anger, Lift thyself up, because of the haughty outbursts of mine adversaries, Stir up for me the justice thou hast commanded:
Psalm 9:12
When he was making inquisition for blood, of them, had he remembrance, he forgat not the outcry of the oppressed.
Psalm 9:19
Rise! Yahweh! let man not prevail, let the nations be judged before thee.
Psalm 10:12-15
Arise! Yahweh! O GOD! raise thy hand, - Do not forget the patient!
Psalm 44:21
Would not, God, have searched into this, Seeing that, he, knoweth the secrets of the heart?
Psalm 76:9
When God rose up to judgment, To save all the oppressed of the earth. Selah.
Isaiah 10:3
What, then, will ye do for the day of visitation, And for the devastation, which from afar, shall come? Unto whom, will ye flee for help? And where will ye leave your gory?
Hosea 9:7
Come are the days of visitation, come are the days of recompense, Let Israel know! The prophet is foolish, the man of the spirit doth rave, because of the greatness of thine iniquity, therefore great is the prosecution.
Micah 7:4
The best of them, is as a sharp briar, and, the most upright, worse than a thorn hedge, The day of thy watchmen - of thy visitation, hath come, Now, shall be their confusion!
Zechariah 2:13
Hush! all flesh, before Yahweh, - For he hath roused himself up out of his holy dwelling.
Mark 7:2
and, observing certain of his disciples, that, with defiled hands, that is unwashed, they are eating bread, - -
Romans 3:19
Now we know that, whatsoever things the law saith, to them who are within the law, it speaketh, in order that, every mouth, may be stopped and all the world come, under penal sentence, unto God.
James 2:13
For, the judgment, will be without mercy, unto him that hath shewed no mercy: Mercy, boasteth, over judgment.