Verse List for JOB 9:3

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Iyyov (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) If someone wanted to argue with him, ⇔ he wouldn’t answer them once out of a thousand times.

OET-LV If someone _desires to_conduct _a _case with_him/it not he_will _answer _him one_time from a _thousand.

ULT If he desires to contend with him, ⇔  he will not answer him one from a thousand.

UST If someone wanted to argue with God about that, ⇔  God would ask him many questions ⇔  and that person would not be able to answer any of them!

BSB & MSB If one wished to contend with [God],[fn] ⇔  he could not answer Him one [time] out of a thousand.

OEB No OEB JOB book available

WEBBE & WMBB If he is pleased to contend with him, ⇔  he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

NET If someone wishes to contend with him, ⇔ he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

LSV If he delights to strive with Him—He does not answer him one of a thousand.

FBV If you wanted to argue with God, God could ask a thousand questions that no one could answer.

T4T If someone wanted to argue with God about that, ⇔  God could ask him 1,000 questions, ⇔  and that person would not be able to answer any of them!

LEB • If he wants to contend with him,
• he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

BBE If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.

Moff Even if God chose to argue, ⇔  you could not answer one of his thousand questions.

JPS If one should desire to contend with Him, he could not answer Him one of a thousand.

ASV If he be pleased to contend with him, ⇔ He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

DRA If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.

YLT If he delight to strive with Him — He doth not answer him one of a thousand.

Drby If he shall choose to strive with him, he cannot answer him one thing of a thousand.

RV If he be pleased to contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

SLT If he shall desire to contend with him, he shall not answer him one from a thousand.

Wbstr If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

KJB-1769 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

KJB-1611 If he will contend with him, he cannot answere him one of a thousand.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps If he wil argue with hym, he can not aunswere hym one thing of a thousande.
(If he will argue with him, he cannot answer him one thing of a thousand.)

Gnva If I would dispute with him, hee could not answere him one thing of a thousand.
(If I would dispute with him, he could not answer him one thing of a thousand.)

Cvdl Yf he wil argue with him, he shall not be able to answere him vnto one amonge a thousande.
(If he will argue with him, he shall not be able to answer him unto one among a thousand.)

Wycl If he wole stryue with God, he may not answere to God oon for a thousynde.
(If he will strive with God, he may not answer to God one for a thousand.)

Luth Hat er Lust, mit ihm zu hadern, so kann er ihm auf tausend nicht eins antworten.
(Has he desire/lust(n), with him to/for struggle, so can he him on/in/to thousand not one answer(v).)

ClVg Si voluerit contendere cum eo, non poterit ei respondere unum pro mille.[fn]
(When/But_if wanted to_contend when/with by_him, not/no will_be_able to_him to_answer one for a_thousand.)

UHB אִם־יַ֭חְפֹּץ לָ⁠רִ֣יב עִמּ֑⁠וֹ לֹֽא־יַ֝עֲנֶ֗⁠נּוּ אַחַ֥ת מִנִּי־אָֽלֶף׃ ‡

BrLXX Ἐὰν γὰρ βούληται κριθῆναι αὐτῷ, οὐ μὴ ὑπακούσῃ αὐτῷ, ἵνα μὴ ἀντείπῃ πρὸς ἕνα λόγον αὐτοῦ ἐκ χιλίων.

BrTr For if he would enter into judgment with him, God would not hearken to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.