Job 9:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

Job 9:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 8:27
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
Job 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Job 23:7
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
Job 9:3
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Job 11:4-5
For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. …

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Fasting Gentleness God Guidance Humiliation and Self-Affliction Humility

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-21)

What Job had said of man’s utter inability to contend with God he here applies to himself, and in effect despairs of gaining his favour, which (some think) arises from the hard thoughts he had of God, as one who, having set himself against him, right or wrong, would be too hard for him. I rather think it arises from the sense he had of the imperfection of his own righteousness, and the dark and cl…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. How much less shall I? &c.--who am weak, seeing that the mighty have to stoop before Him. Choose words (use a well-chosen speech, in order to reason) with Him.