14 How much less shall I answer him? or how should I find out [a]my words with him?

15 For though I were just, yet could I [b]not answer, but I would make supplication to my Judge.

16 If I [c]cry, and he answer me, yet would I not believe, that he heard my voice.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:14 How should I be able to answer him by eloquence? whereby he noteth his friends, that albeit they were eloquent in talk, yet they felt not in heart, that which they spake.
  2. Job 9:15 Meaning, in his own opinion, signifying, that man will sometimes flatter himself to be righteous, which before God is abomination.
  3. Job 9:16 While I am in my pangs, I cannot but burst forth into many inconveniences, although I know still that God is just.

14 “How then can I dispute with him?
    How can I find words to argue with him?(A)
15 Though I were innocent, I could not answer him;(B)
    I could only plead(C) with my Judge(D) for mercy.(E)
16 Even if I summoned him and he responded,
    I do not believe he would give me a hearing.(F)

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