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Job 9:15 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge. "
Job 9:15
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
13 “God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
14 How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?
15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
17 For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
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Job 9:1
"Then Job answered,"
Job 9:2
"“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?"
Job 9:3
"If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand."
Job 9:4
"God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?"
Job 9:5
"He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger."
Job 9:6
"He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble."
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