Job 37:20

WEB

²⁰Will it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

KJV

²⁰Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.

BSB

²⁰Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up

FBV

²⁰^[+] Should God be told that I want to speak? Anyone who wanted to would be destroyed!

Extra References

Job 6:3

³For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash.

Matthew 12:36-37

³⁶I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. ³⁷For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Psalms 139:4

⁴For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, LORD, you know it altogether.

Job 11:7-8

⁷“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty? ⁸They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol.^[+] What can you know?