The Meaning of Job 9:14 Explained

Job 9:14

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

YLT: How much less do I -- I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?

Darby: How much less shall I answer him, choose out my words to strive with him?

ASV: How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words to reason with him?

Discover Job 9:14

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 9:14?

MEANING: What does Job 9:14 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 9:14 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 9:14?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 9:14 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 9:1-35 - "the Daysman"
Ponder the sublimity of the conceptions of God given in this magnificent passage. To God are attributed the earthquake that rocks the pillars on which the world rests, Job 9:6; the eclipse which hides the heavenly bodies, Job 9:7; the storm in which he bows the heavens and treads majestically on the waves, Job 9:8; and the creation of the constellations, Job 9:9. Who can dare to argue with or call to account so great a God as this? Job 9:10-19. Even if a man be outwardly and inwardly righteous (that is, so far as the measure of his light), yet in such a Presence the heart of the most perfect must condemn him. "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves"¦. God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all." We cannot but feel that this old-world thinker had a truer view of that conscious imperfection and sin which must be experienced by every mortal who has a right appreciation of the holiness of God, than have those who refuse to say the Lord's Prayer because it contains a petition for forgiveness!
Truly we need that Daysman! But we have Him in Jesus our Mediator, who can lay His hand on God and us, Job 9:33; 1 Timothy 2:5. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 9

1  Job acknowledges God's justice
22  Man's innocence is not to be condemned by afflictions

What do the individual words in Job 9:14 mean?

How how then I can answer Him [And] choose my words [to reason] with Him
אַ֭ף כִּֽי־ אָנֹכִ֣י אֶֽעֱנֶ֑נּוּ אֶבְחֲרָ֖ה דְבָרַ֣י עִמּֽוֹ

אַ֭ף  How 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: אַף  
Sense: also, yea, though, so much the more adv.
כִּֽי־  how  then 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: כִּי 
Sense: that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since.
אֶֽעֱנֶ֑נּוּ  can  answer  Him 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, first person common singular, third person masculine singular
Root: לְעַנּׄות 
Sense: to answer, respond, testify, speak, shout.
אֶבְחֲרָ֖ה  [And]  choose 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect Cohortative, first person common singular
Root: בָּחוּר 
Sense: to choose, elect, decide for.
דְבָרַ֣י  my  words 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common singular
Root: דָּבָר  
Sense: speech, word, speaking, thing.
עִמּֽוֹ  [to  reason]  with  Him 
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine singular
Root: עִם  
Sense: with.

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