Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Teach us what we shall say unto him! We cannot order our words by reason of darkness.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
Holman Bible
we cannot prepare our case because of our darkness.
International Standard Version
Tell us! What are we to say to him? Can we prepare our case to face him when our faces are in darkness?
A Conservative Version
Teach us what we shall say to him. We cannot set in array because of darkness.
American Standard Version
Teach us what we shall say unto him; For we cannot set our speech in order by reason of darkness.
Amplified
“Tell us [Job] what words [of man] shall we say to such a Being;
We cannot state our case because of darkness [that is, our ignorance in the presence of the unsearchable God].
Bible in Basic English
Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.
Julia Smith Translation
Make known to us what we shall say to him we shall not set in order from the face of darkness.
King James 2000
Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech because of darkness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Teach us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of [the] presence of darkness.
Modern King James verseion
Teach us what we shall say to Him; for because of darkness we cannot arrange our case.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Teach us what we shall say unto him, for we are unmete because of darkness.
NET Bible
Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.
New Heart English Bible
Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case by reason of darkness.
The Emphasized Bible
Let us know what we shall say to him, We cannot set in order, by reason of darkness.
Webster
Teach us what we shall say to him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
World English Bible
Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case by reason of darkness.
Youngs Literal Translation
Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 37:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Majesty
18 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, firm, like a molten mirror? 19 Teach us what we shall say unto him! We cannot order our words by reason of darkness. 20 Shall it be told him if I would speak? if a man so say, surely he shall be swallowed up.
Names
Cross References
Job 12:3
I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these?
Job 13:3
But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with God;
Job 13:6
Hear now my defence, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Job 26:14
Lo, these are the borders of his ways; but what a whisper of a word do we hear of him! And the thunder of his power, who can understand?
Job 28:20-21
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
Job 38:2
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 42:3
Who is he that obscureth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered what I did not understand; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Psalm 73:16-17
When I thought to be able to know this, it was a grievous task in mine eyes;
Psalm 73:22
Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was as a beast with thee.
Psalm 139:6
O knowledge too wonderful for me! it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Proverbs 30:2-4
Truly I am more stupid than any one; and I have not a man's intelligence.
1 Corinthians 13:12
For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known.
1 John 3:2
Beloved, now are we children of God, and what we shall be has not yet been manifested; we know that if it is manifested we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.