Parallel Verses
World English Bible
If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.
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.
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.
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
If he delight to strive with Him -- He doth not answer him one of a thousand.
Interlinear
Chaphets
`anah
References
American
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
2 "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God? 3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand. 4 God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
Names
Cross References
Job 10:2
I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
Job 40:2
"Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."
Job 9:20
Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
Job 9:32-33
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
Job 23:3-7
Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
Job 31:35-37
oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!
Job 33:13
Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?
Job 34:14-15
If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,
Psalm 19:12
Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
Psalm 40:12
For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
Isaiah 57:15-16
For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Romans 9:20
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 3:20
because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.