Job 9:3 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

³ If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ If he will contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ If one should want to contend with Him, he cannot answer one [of His questions] in a thousand.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

Common English Bible

³ If one wants to contend with him, he won’t answer one in a thousand.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ 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

³ 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; show me wherefore thou contendest with me.

Job 13:19

Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall 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 will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.

Job 40:2

Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? He that reproveth God, let him answer it.

Job 40:5

Once have I spoken; but 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

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

Psalm 19:12

Who can understand his errors? Cleanse thou me from secret faults.

Psalm 40:12

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth 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 hast thou made 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

For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.