Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
How much less do I -- I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?
New American Standard Bible
And choose my words
King James Version
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
Holman Bible
or choose my arguments against Him?
International Standard Version
So how am I to answer him, choosing what I am to say to him?
A Conservative Version
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words [to reason] with him?
American Standard Version
How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words to reason with him?
Amplified
“How can I answer Him [and plead my case],
Choosing my words [to reason] with Him?
Bible in Basic English
How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?
Darby Translation
How much less shall I answer him, choose out my words to strive with him?
Julia Smith Translation
How much less shall I answer him, shall I choose my words with him?
King James 2000
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
Lexham Expanded Bible
{How much less} can I myself answer him? [How] can I choose my words with him,
Modern King James verseion
How much less shall I answer Him, and choose my arguments with Him?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
How should I then answer him? Or what words should I find out against him?
NET Bible
"How much less, then, can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him!
New Heart English Bible
How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?
The Emphasized Bible
How much less that, I, should answer him, should choose my words with him?
Webster
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
World English Bible
How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
13 God doth not turn back His anger, Under Him bowed have proud helpers. 14 How much less do I -- I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him? 15 Whom, though I were righteous, I answer not, For my judgment I make supplication.
Names
Cross References
1 Kings 8:27
But, is it true? -- God dwelleth on the earth! lo, the heavens, and the heavens of the heavens do not contain Thee, how much less this house which I have builded!
Job 4:19
Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation is in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)
Job 9:3
If he delight to strive with Him -- He doth not answer him one of a thousand.
Job 11:4-5
And thou sayest, 'Pure is my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'
Job 23:4
I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill with arguments.
Job 23:7
There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.
Job 25:6
How much less man -- a grub, And the son of man -- a worm!
Job 33:5
If thou art able -- answer me, Set in array before me -- station thyself.