Job 37:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁹ Teach us what we shall say unto him; For we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ Teach us what we shall say unto him; For we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ Tell us [Job] with what words of man we may address such a Being; we cannot state our case because we are in the dark [in the presence of the unsearchable God].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ Teach us what we shall say unto him; For we cannot set our speech in order by reason of darkness.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Tell us what we should say to him; we can’t present our case due to darkness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Reveal to us what we should say to him, for, of course, we are wrapped in darkness.

Job 37:19 Cross References

Job 12:3

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

Job 13:3

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.

Job 13:6

Hear now my reasoning, And hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

Job 26:14

Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?

Job 37:20

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

Job 38:2

Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge?

Job 40:4

Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay mine hand upon my mouth.

Job 42:3

Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

Job 9:14

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

Psalm 139:6

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain unto it.

Psalm 73:22

So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee.

Romans 8:26

And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered;

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I have been known.

1 John 3:2

Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.