Job 9:1

Good News Translation

Yes, I've heard all that before. But how can a human being win a case against God? <

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Job answered:

Hebrew Names Version
Then Iyov answered,

King James Version
Then Job answered and said,

English Standard Version
Then Job answered and said:

New Century Version
Then Job answered:

New English Translation
Then Job answered:

Amplified Bible
Then Job answered and said,

New American Standard Bible
Then Job responded,

World English Bible
Then Job answered,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Iob answered, and sayd,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Job answered and said,

Berean Standard Bible
Then Job answered:

Contemporary English Version
Job's Reply to Bildad Job said:

Complete Jewish Bible
Then Iyov responded:

Darby Translation
And Job answered and said,

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Job answered:

George Lamsa Translation
THEN Job answered and said,

Lexham English Bible
Then Job answered and said,

Literal Translation
And Job answered and said:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iob answered, and sayde:

American Standard Version
Then Job answered and said,

Bible in Basic English
And Job made answer and said,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then Job answered and said:

King James Version (1611)
Then Iob answered, and said,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iob aunswered, and sayde,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then Job answered and said,

English Revised Version
Then Job answered and said,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Joob answeride, and seide, Verili Y woot, that it is so,

Update Bible Version
Then Job answered and said,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then Job answered and said,

New King James Version
Then Job answered and said:

New Living Translation
Then Job spoke again:

New Life Bible
Then Job answered,

New Revised Standard
Then Job answered:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then responded Job, and said -

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Job answered, and said:

Revised Standard Version
Then Job answered:

Young's Literal Translation
And Job answereth and saith: --

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Job answered,

Contextual Overview

¹Yes, I've heard all that before. But how can a human being win a case against God? <³ How can anyone argue with him? He can ask a thousand questions that no one could ever answer. ⁴ God is so wise and powerful; no one can stand up against him. ⁵ Without warning he moves mountains and in anger he destroys them. ⁶ God sends earthquakes and shakes the ground; he rocks the pillars that support the earth. ⁷ He can keep the sun from rising, and the stars from shining at night. ⁸ No one helped God spread out the heavens or trample the sea monster's back. ⁹ God hung the stars in the sky—the Dipper, Orion, the Pleiades, and the stars of the south. ¹⁰ We cannot understand the great things he does, and to his miracles there is no end. ¹¹ God passes by, but I cannot see him.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 1:22
He blessed them all and told the creatures that live in the water to reproduce and to fill the sea, and he told the birds to increase in number.

Genesis 2:3
He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working.

Genesis 8:17
Take all the birds and animals out with you, so that they may reproduce and spread over all the earth."

Genesis 9:3
Now you can eat them, as well as green plants; I give them all to you for food.

Genesis 9:4
The one thing you must not eat is meat with blood still in it; I forbid this because the life is in the blood.

Genesis 9:7
"You must have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth."

Genesis 9:19
These three sons of Noah were the ancestors of all the people on earth.

Genesis 10:32
All these peoples are the descendants of Noah, nation by nation, according to their different lines of descent. After the flood all the nations of the earth were descended from the sons of Noah.

Genesis 24:60
And they gave Rebecca their blessing in these words: "May you, sister, become the mother of millions! May your descendants conquer the cities of their enemies!"

Psalms 112:1
Praise the Lord ! Happy is the person who honors the Lord , who takes pleasure in obeying his commands.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Job answered and said. Without taking notice of Bildad's harsh expressions and severe censures, or his unfriendliness to him; he enters directly into the argument, grants some things, confutes others, and defends himself and his conduct.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER IX

Job acknowledges God's justice and man's sinfulness, 1-3.

Celebrates his almighty power as manifested in the earth and

in the heavens, 4-10.

Maintains that God afflicts the innocent as well as the wicked,

without any respect to their works: and hath delivered the

earth into the hands of the wicked, 11-24.

Complains of his lot, and maintains his innocence, 25-35.

NOTES ON CHAP. IX