Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“If I called and He answered me,
I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.

King James Version

If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

Holman Bible

If I summoned Him and He answered me,
I do not believe He would pay attention to what I said.

International Standard Version

"Were I to be summoned, and he were to answer me, I wouldn't even believe that he was listening to what I have to say.

A Conservative Version

If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice.

American Standard Version

If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice.

Amplified


“If I called and He answered me,
I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.

Bible in Basic English

If I had sent for him to be present, and he had come, I would have no faith that he would give ear to my voice.

Darby Translation

If I had called, and he had answered me, I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice, --

Julia Smith Translation

If I called and he will answer me, I shall not believe that he will give ear to my voice.

King James 2000

If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

Lexham Expanded Bible

If I summon [him], and he should answer me, I do not believe that he will listen to my voice--

Modern King James verseion

If I had called and He had answered me, yet would I not believe that He had listened to my voice;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If I had called upon him, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had heard my voice!

NET Bible

If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice --

New Heart English Bible

If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.

The Emphasized Bible

Though I had called, and he had answered me, I could not believe, that he would lend an ear to my voice.

Webster

If I had called, and he had answered me; yet I would not believe that he had hearkened to my voice.

World English Bible

If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.

Youngs Literal Translation

Though I had called and He answereth me, I do not believe that He giveth ear to my voice.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If I had called
קרא 
Qara' 
Usage: 736

and he had answered
ענה 
`anah 
Usage: 329

אזן 
'azan 
Usage: 42

Context Readings

Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad

15 Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser. 16 “If I called and He answered me,
I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.
17 For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;

Cross References

Exodus 6:9

Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.

Judges 6:13

And Gideon said to him, "Please, sir, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, 'Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian."

Job 29:24

I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and the light of my face they did not cast down.

Psalm 18:6

In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.

Psalm 66:18-20

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Psalm 116:1-2

I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy.

Psalm 126:1

When the LORDrestored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.

Luke 24:41

And while they still disbelieved for joy and were marveling, he said to them, "Have you anything here to eat?"

Acts 12:14-16

Recognizing Peter's voice, in her joy she did not open the gate but ran in and reported that Peter was standing at the gate.

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