Job 9:16 · KJV
“If I had called, and he had answered me; {yet} would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.”
— Job 9:16
Whom, though I were righteous, {yet} would I not answer, {but} I would make supplication to my judge.
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Job 9 — Context
How 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.
17For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
18He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Cross References
Exodus 6:9
And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. {anguish: Heb. shortness, or, straitness}
Psalms 116:1-2
I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice {and} my supplications.
Judges 6:13
And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where {be} all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
Acts 12:14-16
And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.
Psalms 66:18-20
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear {me}:
Psalms 18:6
In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, {even} into his ears.
Psalms 126:1
[A Song of degrees.] When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. {turned...: Heb. returned the returning}
Job 29:24
{If} I laughed on them, they believed {it} not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.