Job 9:14
How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?
BSB
ASV
How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words to reason with him?
KJV
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
How great am I that I should answer Him, and talk with Him in my words? As though he said in plain words, 'If that created being is unable to take thought of Him, which is not burthened by the flesh, in what spirit do I dispute about His judgments, who am straitened by the burthen of corruption?'
No, let all flesh be silent before him. He durst not insist upon his own justification before God. Though he vindicated his own integrity to his friends, and would not yield that he was a hypocrite and a wicked man, as they suggested, yet he would never plead it as his righteousness before God.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
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Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.
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Job 33:5Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.
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But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.
