Job 31:14
Good News Translation
If I did not, how could I then face God? What could I say when God came to judge me?

New Revised Standard Version
what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?

Contemporary English Version
Otherwise, what answer would I give to God when he judges me?

New American Bible
What then should I do when God rises up? What could I answer when he demands an account?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?

What then

Job 9:32 For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.

Job 10:2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so?

Psalm 7:6 Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou exalted in the borders of my enemies. And arise, O Lord, my God, in the precept which thou hast commanded:

Psalm 9:12,19 For requiring their blood, he hath remembered them: he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor. . . .

Psalm 10:12-15 Arise, O Lord God, let thy hand be exalted: forget not the poor. . . .

Psalm 44:21 If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god:

Psalm 76:9 When God arose in judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.

Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

Isaiah 10:3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the calamity which cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

Zechariah 2:13 Let all flesh be silent at the presence of the Lord: for he is risen up out of his holy habitation.

when he

Hosea 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness.

Micah 7:4 He that is best among them, is as a brier, and he that is righteous, as the thorn of the hedge. The day of thy inspection, thy visitation cometh: now shall be their destruction.

Mark 7:2 And when they had seen some of his disciples eat bread with common, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault.

James 2:13 For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.

what shall

Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God.

Context
Job's Final Appeal
13If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me: 14For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?15Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?…
Cross References
Job 31:13
If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:

Job 31:15
Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?

Isaiah 10:3
What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the calamity which cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

Job 31:13
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