Job 9:14

A Conservative Version

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

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If thou can, answer thou me. Set [thy words] in order before me. Stand forth.

How much less man, who is a worm! And the son of man, who is a worm!

There the upright might reason with him. So I should be delivered forever from my judge.

I would set my case in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

If he is pleased to contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee. How much less this house that I have built!

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

Teach us what we shall say to him. We cannot set in array because of darkness.