Job 9:15 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁵ Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, But I would make supplication to my judge.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous (upright and innocent) yet I could not answer? I must appeal for mercy to my Opponent and Judge [for my right].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Even if I’m innocent, I can’t answer; I must plead for justice.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ And if I now have any justice, I will not respond, but will beseech my judge.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge.

Job 9:15 Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:13

He prayed to him, and God received his entreaty and heard his supplication and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.

Job 10:15

If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.

Job 10:2

I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why thou dost contend against me.

Job 22:27

You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you; and you will pay your vows.

Job 23:7

There an upright man could reason with him, and I should be acquitted for ever by my judge.

Job 40:5

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

Job 5:8

“As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause;

Job 8:5

If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,

Job 9:16

If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.

Job 9:20

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

Job 9:21

I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.

Jeremiah 31:9

With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.

Daniel 9:18

O my God, incline thy ear and hear; open thy eyes and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name; for we do not present our supplications before thee on the ground of our righteousness, but on the ground of thy great mercy.

Daniel 9:3

Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

1 Corinthians 4:4

I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.

1 Peter 2:23

When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten; but he trusted to him who judges justly.