Job 9:14

Modern

How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?

Traditional

How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

Literal

How then can I answer Him and choose my words with Him,

Latin

Quantus ergo sum ego, ut respondeam ei, et loquar verbis meis cum eo?

Hebrew

English

How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?

Job answered Bildad by describing God's universal and legal power. His speech resembles a complex legal case.

It includes:

A summons and response (9:3, 14–16, 19b, 32).
The risk of proving himself guilty (9:20).
A "mediator" (9:33–34).
A question of accusation (9:12).
A legal sentence (9:22).
A declaration of guilt (9:28–30).

Job 11:4–5
You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’
Job 23:7
Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
Job 4:19
…how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
Job 9:3
If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
Job 25:6
…how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
Job 33:5
Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.
Job 23:4
I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.
1 Kings 8:27
But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.