Job 9:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand.

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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 to God, ‘Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.

Job 13:19

Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.

Job 33:13

Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of my words’?

Job 34:23

For he has not appointed a time for anyone to go before God in judgment.

Job 40:2

“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Anyone who argues with God must respond.”

Job 40:5

I have spoken once, and I will not answer, twice but will proceed no further.”

Job 9:14

How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?

Job 9:20

Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

Psalm 19:12

But who can detect one’s own errors? Clear me from hidden faults.

Psalm 40:12

For evils have encompassed me without number; my iniquities have overtaken me until I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

Romans 9:20

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?”

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

whenever our hearts condemn us, for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.