Job 37:19

WEB

¹⁹Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.

KJV

¹⁹Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

BSB

¹⁹Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness.

FBV

¹⁹So why don't you teach us what to tell God? We cannot make our case because we are in the dark!

Extra References

Job 13:3

³“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

Job 38:2

²“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

Job 26:14

¹⁴Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

²“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding. ³I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One. ⁴Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?

Psalms 73:16-17

¹⁶When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me— ¹⁷until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

Psalms 73:22

²²I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

1 John 3:2

²Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is.

Job 12:3

³But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

Job 42:3

³You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

Psalms 139:6

⁶This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.