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OET (OET-RV) ⇔ I will certainly answer him.
⇔ I will choose my words against him.
OET-LV Indeed DOM I answer_him I_will_choose words_my with_him/it.
UHB אַ֭ף כִּֽי־אָנֹכִ֣י אֶֽעֱנֶ֑נּוּ אֶבְחֲרָ֖ה דְבָרַ֣י עִמּֽוֹ׃ ‡
(ʼaf ⱪiy-ʼānokiy ʼeˊₑnennū ʼeⱱəḩₐrāh dəⱱāray ˊimmō.)
Key: yellow:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
ULT Indeed that I will answer him,
⇔ choose words with him!—
UST So I could hardly think of the right words to say
⇔ in order to argue a case against God!
BSB ⇔ How then can I answer Him
⇔ or choose my arguments against Him?
OEB How much less can I give Him answer,
⇔ And choose out my words against Him?
WEB How much less will I answer him,
⇔ and choose my words to argue with him?
NET “How much less, then, can I answer him
⇔ and choose my words to argue with him!
LSV How much less do I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?
FBV So how much less could I answer God, or choose my words to argue with him!
T4T ⇔ “So, if God took me to court,
⇔ what could I say [MTY] to answer him?
LEB • can I myself answer him? How can I choose my words with him,
BBE How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?
MOF No MOF JOB book available
JPS How much less shall I answer Him, and choose out my arguments with Him?
ASV How much less shall I answer him,
⇔ And choose out my words to reason with him?
DRA What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?
YLT How much less do I — I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?
DBY How much less shall I answer him, choose out my words [to strive] with him?
RV How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
WBS How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
KJB How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
BB Howe much lesse shall I aunswere him? or howe shoulde I finde out my wordes with him?
(How much lesse shall I answer him? or how should I find out my words with him?)
GNV Howe much lesse shall I answere him? or howe should I finde out my words with him?
(How much lesse shall I answer him? or how should I find out my words with him?)
CB How shulde I then answere him? or, what wordes shulde I fynde out agaynst him?
(How should I then answer him? or, what words should I find out against him?)
WYC Hou greet am Y, that Y answere to hym, and speke bi my wordis with hym?
(How great am Y, that I answer to him, and speke by my words with him?)
LUT Wie sollt ich denn ihm antworten und Worte finden gegen ihn?
(How sollt I because him antworten and Worte finden gegen ihn?)
CLV Quantus ergo sum ego, ut respondeam ei, et loquar verbis meis cum eo?
(Quantus ergo I_am ego, as respondeam ei, and loquar verbis meis cum eo?)
BRN Oh then that he would hearken to me, or judge my cause.
BrLXX Ἐὰν δέ μου ὑπακούσεται, ἤ διακρίνει τὰ ῥήματά μου.
(Ean de mou hupakousetai, aʸ diakrinei ta ɽaʸmata mou.)
9:1-35 Job responded to Bildad by describing God’s cosmic and judicial power. His speech sounds like a complicated legal case, with a summons and response (9:3, 14-16, 19b, 32), the possibility of self-incrimination (9:20), an arbiter (9:33-34), an accusatory question (9:12), a legal sentence (9:22), and a declaration of guilt (9:28-30).
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
אַ֭ף כִּֽי־אָנֹכִ֣י אֶֽעֱנֶ֑נּוּ
also/though that/for/because/then/when I answer,him
Indeed that is an expression that indicates that what follows is greater in degree than what a person has just said. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “How much less would I be able to answer him”
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
אַ֭ף כִּֽי־אָנֹכִ֣י אֶֽעֱנֶ֑נּוּ
also/though that/for/because/then/when I answer,him
For emphasis, Job is stating the pronoun I, whose meaning is already present in the verb translated will answer. If your language can state implied pronouns explicitly for emphasis, you may want to use that construction here in your translation. Other languages may have other ways of bringing out this emphasis. Alternate translation: “How much less would a mere mortal such as I be able to answer him”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
אֶבְחֲרָ֖ה דְבָרַ֣י עִמּֽוֹ
choose words,my with=him/it
Job is using the expression choose words to mean by association arguing a case against God, since he would have to choose the right words in order to do that. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “argue a case against him”