Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness.
New American Standard Bible
We
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.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 37:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Majesty
18 Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds -- strong as a hard mirror! 19 Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness. 20 Is it declared to Him that I speak? If a man hath spoken, surely he is swallowed up.
Names
Cross References
Job 12:3
I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like these?
Job 13:3
Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.
Job 13:6
Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,
Job 26:14
Lo, these are the borders of His way, And how little a matter is heard of Him, And the thunder of His might Who doth understand?
Job 28:20-21
And the wisdom -- whence doth it come? And where is this, the place of understanding?
Job 38:2
Who is this -- darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?
Job 42:3
Who is this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.
Psalm 73:16-17
And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes,
Psalm 73:22
And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.
Psalm 139:6
Knowledge too wonderful for me, It hath been set on high, I am not able for it.
Proverbs 30:2-4
For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man.
1 Corinthians 13:12
for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;
1 John 3:2
beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;