Job 31:14
Modern Translations
New International Version
what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when called to account?

New Living Translation
how could I face God? What could I say when he questioned me?

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

Berean Study Bible
what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?

New American Standard Bible
What then could I do when God arises? And when He calls me to account, how am I to answer Him?

NASB 1995
What then could I do when God arises? And when He calls me to account, what will I answer Him?

NASB 1977
What then could I do when God arises, And when He calls me to account, what will I answer Him?

Amplified Bible
What then could I do when God arises [to judge me]? When He calls me to account, what will I answer Him?

Christian Standard Bible
what could I do when God stands up to judge? How should I answer him when he calls me to account?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
what could I do when God stands up to judge? How should I answer Him when He calls me to account?

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
then what could I do if God rises up? If he examines me, how could I answer him?

International Standard Version
what will I do when God stands up to act? When he asks the questions, how will I answer him?

NET Bible
then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?
Classic Translations
King James Bible
What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

New King James Version
What then shall I do when God rises up? When He punishes, how shall I answer Him?

King James 2000 Bible
What then shall I do when God rises up? and when he comes, what shall I answer him?

New Heart English Bible
What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

World English Bible
What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

American King James Version
What then shall I do when God rises up? and when he visits, what shall I answer him?

American Standard Version
What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

A Faithful Version
What then shall I do when God rises up? And when He calls me to account, what shall I answer Him?

Darby Bible Translation
What then should I do when God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?

English Revised Version
What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

Webster's Bible Translation
What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
What then shal I do when God standeth vp? & when he shal visit me, what shal I answere?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
When God will sit in iudgement, what shall I do? & when he will visite me, what aunswere shal I geue him?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
But seynge that God wil sytt in iudgment, what shal I do? And for so moch as he wil nedes vyset me, what answere shal I geue him?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Then what do I do when God arises? And when He inspects, "" What do I answer Him?

Young's Literal Translation
Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?

Smith's Literal Translation
And what shall I do when God shall rise up? And when he shall review, what shall I turn back to him?

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
then what will I do when God rises to judge, and, when he inquires, how will I respond to him?

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
But I have said, ‘what shall I do when God stands up and when he commands, what I shall return to him?’

Lamsa Bible
Without saying, What then shall I do when God rises up in judgment, and when he inquires, what shall I answer him?

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when He remembereth, what shall I answer Him?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
what then shall I do if the Lord should try me? and if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer?
















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