Job 24:25
New International Version
“If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?”

New Living Translation
Can anyone claim otherwise? Who can prove me wrong?”

English Standard Version
If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?”

Berean Standard Bible
If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”

King James Bible
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

New King James Version
“Now if it is not so, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech worth nothing?”

New American Standard Bible
“Now if it is not so, who can prove me a liar, And make my speech worthless?”

NASB 1995
“Now if it is not so, who can prove me a liar, And make my speech worthless?”

NASB 1977
“Now if it is not so, who can prove me a liar, And make my speech worthless?”

Legacy Standard Bible
Now if it is not so, who can prove me a liar, And make my speech worthless?”

Amplified Bible
“And if this is not so, who can prove me a liar And make my speech worthless?”

Christian Standard Bible
If this is not true, then who can prove me a liar and show that my speech is worthless?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If this is not true, then who can prove me a liar and show that my speech is worthless?

American Standard Version
And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if it was not his anger, he will convict me of lying, and my word shall be considered before God”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But if not, who is he that says I speak falsely, and will make my words of no account?

Contemporary English Version
If I haven't spoken the truth, then prove me wrong.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if it be not so, who can convince me that I have lied, and set my words before God?

English Revised Version
And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"If it isn't so, who can prove I'm a liar and show that my words are worthless?"

Good News Translation
Can anyone deny that this is so? Can anyone prove that my words are not true?

International Standard Version
If this weren't so, who can prove that I'm a liar by showing that there's nothing to what I'm saying?"

JPS Tanakh 1917
And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?

Literal Standard Version
And if not now, who proves me a liar, | And makes my word of nothing?”

Majority Standard Bible
If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”

New American Bible
If this be not so, who can make me a liar, and reduce my words to nothing?

NET Bible
"If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?"

New Revised Standard Version
If it is not so, who will prove me a liar, and show that there is nothing in what I say?”

New Heart English Bible
If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?"

Webster's Bible Translation
And if it is not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech of no worth?

World English Bible
If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

Young's Literal Translation
And if not now, who doth prove me a liar, And doth make of nothing my word?

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Context
Job: Judgment for the Wicked
24They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain. 25If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”

Cross References
Job 6:28
But now, please look at me. Would I lie to your face?

Job 25:1
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Job 27:4
my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.


Treasury of Scripture

And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

who will make

Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

Job 11:2,3
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? …

Job 15:2
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

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(25) And if it be not so now.--Job also has his facts, as ready and as incontrovertible as those of his friends, and yet irreconcilable with theirs.

Verse 25. - And if it be not so now; i.e. "if these things be not as I say." Who will make me a liar? Which of you will stand forth and disprove them, and so "make me a liar "? And make my speech nothing worth! Show, i.e. my whole discourse to be valueless. This bold challenge no one attempts to take up.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If
וְאִם־ (wə·’im-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

this is not so,
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

then
אֵ֭פוֹ (’ê·p̄ōw)
Conjunction
Strong's 645: Here, now, then

who
מִ֣י (mî)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

can prove me a liar
יַכְזִיבֵ֑נִי (yaḵ·zî·ḇê·nî)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 3576: To lie, be a liar

and reduce
וְיָשֵׂ֥ם (wə·yā·śêm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

my words
מִלָּתִֽי׃ (mil·lā·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4405: A word, a discourse, a topic

to nothing?”
לְ֝אַ֗ל (lə·’al)
Preposition-l | Adverb
Strong's 408: Not


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