Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.
New American Standard Bible
He could not answer Him once in a thousand times.
King James Version
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Holman Bible
he could not answer God
International Standard Version
If one were to seek to argue with him, he won't be able to answer him even once in a thousand times.
A Conservative Version
If he is pleased to contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
American Standard Version
If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Amplified
“If one should want to contend or dispute with Him,
He could not answer Him once in a thousand times.
Darby Translation
If he shall choose to strive with him, he cannot answer him one thing of a thousand.
Julia Smith Translation
If he shall desire to contend with him, he shall not answer him one from a thousand.
King James 2000
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Lexham Expanded Bible
If he wants to contend with him, he cannot answer him one [time] in a thousand.
Modern King James verseion
If he will argue with Him, he cannot answer Him one of a thousand.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If he will argue with him, he shall not be able to answer him unto one among a thousand.
NET Bible
If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.
New Heart English Bible
If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.
The Emphasized Bible
If he choose to contend with him, he cannot answer him, one of a thousand:
Webster
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
World English Bible
If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.
Youngs Literal Translation
If he delight to strive with Him -- He doth not answer him one of a thousand.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
2 Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God? 3 If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions. 4 He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?
Names
Cross References
Job 10:2
I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.
Job 40:2
Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer.
Job 9:20
Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.
Job 9:32-33
For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.
Job 23:3-7
If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!
Job 31:35-37
If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!
Job 33:13
Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?
Job 34:14-15
If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,
Psalm 19:12
Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.
Psalm 40:12
For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.
Isaiah 57:15-16
For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
Romans 9:20
But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.
1 John 3:20
When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.