Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

What then could I do when God arises?
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

what could I do when God stands up to judge?
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?

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?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אל 
'el 
Usage: 114

riseth up
קוּם 
Quwm 
Usage: 629

שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense Continued

13 If I have rejected the cause of my male or female slaves, when they brought a complaint against me 14 What then could I do when God arises?
And when He calls me to account, what will I answer Him?
15 Did the one who made me in the womb make them? And did that one fashion us in the womb?

Cross References

Job 9:32

God is not a man, as I am: That I may answer him and we should go to court together.

Job 10:2

I will say to God: 'Do not condemn me, but tell me what charges you have against me.

Psalm 7:6

O Jehovah do rise up in your anger. Lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies. Awake O my God. You have pronounced judgment.

Psalm 9:12

God remembers those who suffer. He does not forget their cry, and he punishes those who wrong them.

Psalm 9:19

Arise, O Jehovah. Do not let mortals gain any power. Let the nations be judged in your presence.

Psalm 10:12-15

Arise, O Jehovah! Lift your hand, O God. Do not forget oppressed people!

Psalm 44:21

would God not find out, since he knows the secrets in our hearts?

Psalm 76:9

when God arose to judgment, to save all the humble of the earth.

Psalm 143:2

Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do on the day you are called to account for these things, when destruction comes from far away? Where will you run for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

Hosea 9:7

The time for them to be punished will come. The time for them to pay for their sins will come. When this happens, Israel will know it. They think that prophets are fools and that spiritual people are crazy. They have sinned a lot, and are filled with hostility.

Micah 7:4

The best of them is as a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge! Your watchmen's day has come. Your visitation has come. Now you will be perplexed.

Zechariah 2:13

Be silent, all flesh, before Jehovah, for he is aroused out of his holy dwelling.

Mark 7:2

They saw that some of his disciples ate their bread with unwashed defiled hands.

Romans 3:19

We know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law. Every mouth may be stopped and the entire world may become liable to God for punishment.

James 2:13

For judgment is without mercy to him who shows no mercy. And mercy triumphs over judgment.

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