Job 9:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe that he would listen to my voice. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If I had called, and he had answered me; Yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If I called and He answered me, yet would I not believe that He listened to my voice. American Standard Version (1901) If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice. Common English Bible If I were to call and he answered me, I couldn’t believe that he heard my voice. Catholic Public Domain Version And if he should listen to me when I call, I would not believe that he had heard my voice. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice. |
I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and the light of my countenance they did not extinguish.
Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal to my accuser for my right.
For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;
When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.
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.
Moses told this to the Israelites, but they would not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and their cruel slavery.
Yet for all their joy they were still disbelieving and wondering, and he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?”
Gideon answered him, “But sir, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our ancestors recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has cast us off and given us into the hand of Midian.”