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Job 9:16
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If I summoned him and he answered me,I do not believe he would pay attention to what I said.
If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he listened to my voice.
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
If I called to him and he answered, I still don't believe he would listen to me.
If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice—
"If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.
"If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.
If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he listened to my voice.
If I cry, and he answere me, yet woulde I not beleeue, that he heard my voyce.
If I called and He answered me,I could not believe that He was giving ear to my voice.
If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.
And if God came into court when I called him, he would not hear my case.
If I summoned him, and he answered me, I still can't believe he would listen to my plea.
If I had called, and he had answered me, I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice,—
Even if I called and he answered, I cannot believe he would listen to me.
If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I would not believe that he had hearkened to my voice.
Yet even then, if he lets me speak, I can't believe he would listen to me.
If I summon him, and he should answer me, I do not believe that he will listen to my voice—
If I had called and He had answered me; I would not believe that He had listened to my voice;
All be it that I call vpon him, and he heare me, yet am I not sure, yt he hath herde my voyce:
If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice.
If I had sent for him to be present, and he had come, I would have no faith that he would give ear to my voice.
If I had called, and He had answered me; yet would I not believe that He would hearken unto my voice--
If I had called, and had answered me, yet would I not beleeue that he had hearkened vnto my voice:
If I had called vpon hym, and he had aunswered me, yet woulde I not beleue that he hearde my voyce:
And if I should call and he should not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice.
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice.
And whanne he hath herd me inwardli clepynge, Y bileue not, that he hath herd my vois.
If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet I would not believe that he listened to my voice.
If I had called, and he had answered me; [yet] I would not believe that he had hearkened to my voice.
If I called and He answered me, I would not believe that He was listening to my voice.
And even if I summoned him and he responded, I'm not sure he would listen to me.
If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.
If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe that he would listen to my voice.
Though I had called, and he had answered me, I could not believe, that he would lend an ear to my voice.
And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.
If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
Though I had called and He answereth me, I do not believe that He giveth ear [to] my voice.
"If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
If I had: Psalms 18:6, Psalms 66:18-20, Psalms 116:1, Psalms 116:2
would I: Job 29:24, Exodus 6:9, Judges 6:13, Psalms 126:1, Luke 24:41, Acts 12:14-16
Reciprocal: Genesis 45:26 - he believed Job 15:22 - He believeth not Job 39:24 - neither Song of Solomon 2:14 - that art Mark 16:11 - believed Luke 24:11 - idle John 20:25 - Except Acts 12:15 - Thou
Cross-References
Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;
only flesh in its life—its blood—you do not eat.
And God speaks to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
"And I, behold, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,
and with every living creature which [is] with you, among bird, among livestock, and among every beast of the earth with you, from all who are going out of the ark—to every beast of the earth.
And I have established My covenant with you, and all flesh is not cut off anymore by waters of a flood, and there is not a flood to destroy the earth anymore."
and drinks of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovers himself in the midst of the tent.
And Ham, father of Canaan, sees the nakedness of his father, and declares to his two brothers outside.
And I have established My covenant between Me and you, and your seed after you, throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant, to become God to you, and to your seed after you;
he is certainly circumcised who [is] born in your house, or bought with your money; and My covenant has become in your flesh a perpetual covenant;
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If I had called, and he had answered me,.... Mr. Broughton reads the words, "if I cry, will he answer me?" as if Job had some doubt upon his mind whether God would vouchsafe to answer him, though he should make his supplication to him, as he proposed; seeing he had so sorely afflicted him, and still continued his hand upon him; or the words may be rendered, "though I have called, and he has answered" q, in times past. Job was a praying person, he had often prayed to God in his closet, and in his family, for himself, and for his children, and for his friends, and he had found God to be a God hearing and answering prayer, but seems to question whether he would answer him now, if he did pray to him:
[yet] would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice, or "would hearken" r, at this time, and under the present circumstances; or should he, the mercy would be so great, that he could hardly believe it; so sometimes through joy men cannot believe what they hear and see, as the apostles, when Christ appeared to them after his resurrection; or as it was with the Jews returned from Babylon, they were like them that dream, they could scarcely tell whether their deliverance was a real fact, or whether they only dreamed of it, see Luke 24:41; so Job intimates, that should he pray to God, and be heard and delivered, it would be so astonishing and transporting, that at first he should not be able to give credit to it; or, however, he should not believe that it was for his prayers and supplications, for any worth and value, virtue and efficacy, there was in them, that he was heard; but it must be purely for his mercy's sake, for the sake of the mediation of Christ, and because these prayers were the breathings of his own spirit: or else the sense is, that though he had heard and answered him formerly, when he prayed in a supplicating way, yet if he should contend with him in a judicial way, and insist upon his own righteousness, and present his supplication to God on that account, he could never expect to be heard; and, indeed, he could not believe he should be heard on any account, so long as his present sufferings lasted; which seems to be the sense of what follows, where he gives his reasons for such belief, or rather unbelief.
q ×× ×§×¨××ª× ×××¢× × × "etiamsi clamavi et respondit mihi", Schmidt. r ×× ××××× "quod exauditurus esset", Schmidt.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If I had called, and he had answered me - It is remarked by Schultens, that the expressions in these verses are all taken from courts of justice. If so, the meaning is, that even if Job should call the Almighty to a judicial action, and he should respond to him, and consent to submit the great question about his innocence, and about the justice of the divine dealings with him, to trial, yet that such was the distance between God and him, that he could not hope successfully to contend with him in the argument. He would, therefore, prostrate himself in a suppliant manner, and implore his mercy and compassion - submitting to him as having all power, and as being a just and righteous Sovereign.
Would I not believe - I cannot believe that he would enter into my complaint. He deals with me in a manner so severe; he acts toward me so much as a sovereign, that I have no reason to suppose that he would not continue to act toward me in the same way still.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 9:16. If I had called, and he had answered — I could scarcely suppose, such is his majesty and such his holiness, that he could condescend to notice a being so mean, and in every respect so infinitely beneath his notice. These sentiments sufficiently confuted that slander of his friends, who said he was presumptuous, had not becoming notions of the majesty of God, and used blasphemous expressions against his sovereign authority.
