Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“Teach us what we shall say to Him;
We cannot arrange our case because of darkness.

King James Version

Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

Holman Bible

Teach us what we should say to Him;
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.

Darby Translation

Teach us what we shall say unto him! We cannot order our words by reason of darkness.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
us what we shall say

Usage: 0

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

Context Readings

Elihu Extols God's Majesty

18 Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror? 19 “Teach us what we shall say to Him;
We cannot arrange our case because of darkness.
20 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?

Cross References

Job 12:3

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

Job 13:3

But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

Job 13:6

Hear now my argument and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

Job 26:14

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"

Job 28:20-21

"From where, then, does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding?

Job 38:2

"Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

Job 42:3

'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

Psalm 73:16-17

But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,

Psalm 73:22

I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.

Psalm 139:6

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.

Proverbs 30:2-4

Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

1 John 3:2

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

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