Job 37:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Should he be told that I want to speak? Did anyone ever wish to be swallowed up?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Shall it be told him that I speak? If a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ So shall it be told Him that I wish to speak? If a man speaks, shall he be swallowed up?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

Common English Bible

²⁰ Should someone inform him that I wish to speak, or would anyone say he wants to be devoured?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Who will explain to him the things that I am saying? Even while a man is still speaking, he will be devoured.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Who shall tell him the things I speak? Even if a man shall speak, he shall be swallowed up.

Job 37:20 Cross References

Job 37:19

Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.

Job 37:21

Now, no one can look on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.

Job 6:3

For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.

Psalm 139:4

Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely.

Habakkuk 2:20

But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him!