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, with Him, spread out the skies,
Strong as a molten 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?
Or should a man say that he would be swallowed up?


Cross References

Job 12:3

“But I have intelligence as well as you;
I am not inferior to you.
And who does not know such things as these?

Job 13:3

“But I would speak to the Almighty,
And I desire to argue with God.

Job 13:6

“Please hear my argument
And listen to the contentions of my lips.

Job 26:14

“Behold, these are the fringes of His ways;
And how faint a word we hear of Him!
But His mighty thunder, who can understand?”

Job 28:20-21

Where then does wisdom come from?
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 declared that which I did not understand,
Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.”

Psalm 73:16-17

When I pondered to understand this,
It was troublesome in my sight

Psalm 73:22

Then I was senseless and ignorant;
I was like a beast before You.

Psalm 139:6

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

Proverbs 30:2-4

Surely I am more stupid than any man,
And I do not have 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, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.

1 John 3:2

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.

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