Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Even if I summoned him and he responded, I do not believe he would give me a hearing. New Living Translation And even if I summoned him and he responded, I’m not sure he would listen to me. English Standard Version If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice. Berean Standard Bible If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice. King James Bible If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. New King James Version If I called and He answered me, I would not believe that He was listening to my voice. New American Standard Bible “If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice. NASB 1995 “If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice. NASB 1977 “If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice. Legacy Standard Bible If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was giving ear to my voice. Amplified Bible “If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice. Christian Standard Bible If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe he would pay attention to what I said. Holman Christian Standard Bible If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would pay attention to what I said. American Standard Version If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice. Aramaic Bible in Plain English If I called and he answered me, still I would not believe that he heard my voice Brenton Septuagint Translation And if I should call and he should not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice. Contemporary English Version And if God came into court when I called him, he would not hear my case. Douay-Rheims Bible And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice. English Revised Version If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice. GOD'S WORD® Translation If I cried out and he answered me, I do not believe that he would listen to me. Good News Translation Yet even then, if he lets me speak, I can't believe he would listen to me. International Standard Version "Were I to be summoned, and he were to answer me, I wouldn't even believe that he was listening to what I have to say. JPS Tanakh 1917 If I had called, and He had answered me; Yet would I not believe that He would hearken unto my voice-- Literal Standard Version Though I had called and He answers me, I do not believe that He gives ear [to] my voice. Majority Standard Bible If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice. New American Bible If I appealed to him and he answered me, I could not believe that he would listen to me; NET Bible If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice-- New Revised Standard Version If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe that he would listen to my voice. New Heart English Bible If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice. Webster's Bible Translation If I had called, and he had answered me; yet I would not believe that he had hearkened to my voice. World English Bible If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice. Young's Literal Translation Though I had called and He answereth me, I do not believe that He giveth ear to my voice. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job: How Can I Argue with God?…15For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy. 16If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice. 17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.… Cross References Job 9:15 For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy. Job 9:17 For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause. Job 13:22 Then call me, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You can reply. Treasury of Scripture If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had listened to my voice. If I had Psalm 18:6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. Psalm 66:18-20 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: … Psalm 116:1,2 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications… would I Job 29:24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. Exodus 6:9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. Judges 6:13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. Jump to Previous Believe Ear Faith Hearing Hearken Hearkened Listening Present Responded Summoned Voice Wouldn'tJump to Next Believe Ear Faith Hearing Hearken Hearkened Listening Present Responded Summoned Voice Wouldn'tJob 9 1. Job acknowledges God's justice22. Man's innocence is not to be condemned by afflictions Verse 16. - If I had called, and he had answered me. "If," that is, "I had challenged God to a controversy, and he had granted it, and bidden me to plead my cause at his bar, yet could I not suppose that he had really hearkened to me, and would allow me boldly to stand up before him and freely to challenge his doings. Such condescension on his part, such an abnegation of his supremacy, is inconceivable, and could not have acted on it." Yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice; rather, yet could I not believe. It was not that he would not have wished, but that he would not have been able, to believe. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Ifאִם־ (’im-) Conjunction Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not I summoned Him קָרָ֥אתִי (qā·rā·ṯî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 7121: To call, proclaim, read and He answered me, וַֽיַּעֲנֵ֑נִי (way·ya·‘ă·nê·nî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular Strong's 6030: To answer, respond I do not לֹֽא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no believe אַ֝אֲמִ֗ין (’a·’ă·mîn) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 539: To confirm, support He would listen יַאֲזִ֥ין (ya·’ă·zîn) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 238: To broaden out the ear, to listen to my voice. קוֹלִֽי׃ (qō·w·lî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 6963: A voice, sound Links Job 9:16 NIVJob 9:16 NLT Job 9:16 ESV Job 9:16 NASB Job 9:16 KJV Job 9:16 BibleApps.com Job 9:16 Biblia Paralela Job 9:16 Chinese Bible Job 9:16 French Bible Job 9:16 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 9:16 If I had called and he had (Jb) |