Job 9:14 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

How much less do I -- I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?

English ASV

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

English Amplified

How much less shall I answer Him, choosing out my words to reason with Him

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

How much less shall I answer Him, choosing out my words to reason with Him

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

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

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

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

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

How much less shall I answer him, choose out my words [to strive] with him?

English EASY 2024

So I can never give an answer to God. There are no words that I can use to argue with him.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

So I cannot argue with God. I would not know what to say to him.

How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?

English GNT (Good News Translation)

So how can I find words to answer God?

English God's Word - GW 1995

"How can I possibly answer God? How can I find the right words {to speak} with him?

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

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

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

How then can I answer Him, And choose my words before Him?

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

“How, then, can I myself answer Him, and choose my words to reason with Him?

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"How then can I answer Him, And choose my words before Him?

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

How much less shall I give him any answer, or choose out arguments against him!

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

“How much less, then, can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him!

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

"So how can I disagree with God? How can I possibly argue with him?

English NIV

"How then can I dispute with him? How can I find words to argue with him?

English NKJ 1982

“How then can I answer Him, And choose my words to reason with Him?

English NLT

"And who am I, that I should try to answer God or even reason with him?

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

And who am I that I should try to argue with Almighty God, or even reason with him?

English Tyndale 1537

How should I then answer him? or what words should I find out against him?

Job 9:14 — Compare Translations