Job 9:14 · KJV
“How much less shall I answer him, {and} choose out my words {to reason} with him?”
— Job 9:14
{If} God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. {proud...: Heb. helpers of pride, or, strength}
Whom, though I were righteous, {yet} would I not answer, {but} I would make supplication to my judge.
Job 9 — Context
Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? {hinder...: Heb. turn him away?}
13{If} God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. {proud...: Heb. helpers of pride, or, strength}
14How much less shall I answer him, {and} choose out my words {to reason} with him?
15Whom, though I were righteous, {yet} would I not answer, {but} I would make supplication to my judge.
16If I had called, and he had answered me; {yet} would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
Cross References
Job 33:5
If thou canst answer me, set {thy words} in order before me, stand up.
1 Kings 8:27
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
Job 23:4
I would order {my} cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job 23:7
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
Job 4:19
How much less {in} them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation {is} in the dust, {which} are crushed before the moth?
Job 25:6
How much less man, {that is} a worm? and the son of man, {which is} a worm?
Job 9:3
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Job 11:4-5
For thou hast said, My doctrine {is} pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.