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Job Chapter 9 verse 3 Holy Bible

ASV Job 9:3

If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.
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BBE Job 9:3

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.
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DARBY Job 9:3

If he shall choose to strive with him, he cannot answer him one thing of a thousand.
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KJV Job 9:3

If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
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WBT Job 9:3

If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
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WEB Job 9:3

If he is pleased to contend with him, He can't answer him one time in a thousand.
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YLT Job 9:3

If he delight to strive with Him -- He doth not answer him one of a thousand.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - If he will contend with him; rather, if he should desire to contend with him; i.e. if, notwithstanding his knowledge of his own weakness and guilt, he should nevertheless be mad enough to desire to contend with God, then he will find that he cannot answer him one of a thousand. Of the charges which God might in his omniscience bring against him, he could not make a satisfactory reply to one in a thousand. It is not that Job admits any special guilt in himself; but such he feels to be the universal condition of humanity. "All have sinned in ten thousand ways, "and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) If he will contend with him.--If man choose to contend with God, he cannot answer Him one question of a thousand, once in a thousand times.