“But in this you are not right. I will answer you: God is greater than any mortal.
Job 9:32 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, And we should come together in judgment. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For [God] is not a [mere] man, as I am, that I should answer Him, that we should come together in court. American Standard Version (1901) For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment. Common English Bible God is not a man like me—someone I could answer— so that we could come together in court. Catholic Public Domain Version For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could be heard with me equally in judgment. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment. |
“But in this you are not right. I will answer you: God is greater than any mortal.
If it is a contest of strength, he is the strong one! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand.
Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what humans are and that they are not able to dispute with those who are stronger.
Woe to those who strive with their Maker, earthen vessels with the potter! Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”? or “Your work has no handles”?
Like a lion coming up from the thickets of the Jordan to a perennial pasture, I will suddenly chase Edom away from it, and I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who can summon me? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?
God is not a human being, that he should lie, or a mortal, that he should change his mind. Has he promised, and will he not do it? Has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
But who indeed are you, a human, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”
whenever our hearts condemn us, for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him, for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”