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Job 9:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built!

I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

There the upright could reason with him, and I should be acquitted forever by my judge.

how much less a mortal, who is a maggot, and a human being, who is a worm!”

Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.

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

how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.

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

For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.