Job 9:14-20
1599 Geneva Bible
14 How much less shall I answer him? or how should I find out [a]my words with him?
15 For though I were just, yet could I [b]not answer, but I would make supplication to my Judge.
16 If I [c]cry, and he answer me, yet would I not believe, that he heard my voice.
17 For he destroyeth me with a tempest, and woundeth me [d]without cause.
18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
19 If we speak of strength, behold, he is [e]strong: if we speak of judgment, who shall bring me in to plead?
20 If I should justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: [f]if I would be perfect, he shall judge me wicked.
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- Job 9:14 How should I be able to answer him by eloquence? whereby he noteth his friends, that albeit they were eloquent in talk, yet they felt not in heart, that which they spake.
- Job 9:15 Meaning, in his own opinion, signifying, that man will sometimes flatter himself to be righteous, which before God is abomination.
- Job 9:16 While I am in my pangs, I cannot but burst forth into many inconveniences, although I know still that God is just.
- Job 9:17 I am not able to feel my sins so great, as I feel the weight of his plagues; and this he speaketh to condemn his dullness, and to justify God.
- Job 9:19 After he hath accused his own weakness, he continueth to justify God and his power.
- Job 9:20 If I would stand in mine own defense, yet God hath just cause to condemn me, if he examine mine heart and conscience.
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