Job 9:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

If he will contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

If one should want to contend with Him, he cannot answer one [of His questions] in a thousand.

American Standard Version (1901)

If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

Common English Bible

If one wants to contend with him, he won’t answer one in a thousand.

Catholic Public Domain Version

If he chooses to contend with him, he is not able to respond to him once out of a thousand times.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.

Job 9:3 Cross References

Job 10:2

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

Job 13:19

Who is he that will contend with me? For now shall I hold my peace and give up the ghost.

Job 33:13

Why dost thou strive against him? For he giveth not account of any of his matters

Job 34:23

For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgement.

Job 40:2

Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it.

Job 40:5

Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; Yea twice, but I will proceed no further

Job 9:14

How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words to reason with him?

Job 9:20

Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.

Psalm 19:12

Who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.

Psalm 40:12

For innumerable evils have compassed me about, Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of mine head, and my heart hath failed me.

Romans 9:20

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?

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

whereinsoever our heart condemn us; because God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.