Job 9:15

WEB

¹⁵Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

KJV

¹⁵Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

BSB

¹⁵For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.

FBV

¹⁵Even though I'm right,^[+] I can't answer him. I must plead for mercy from my judge.

Extra References

Job 10:15

¹⁵If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

Job 8:5

⁵If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

Job 22:27

²⁷You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.

1 Peter 2:23

²³When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

Job 5:8

⁸“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

Job 10:2

²I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

¹⁸My God, turn your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.

Job 34:31-32

³¹“For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more. ³²Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

Daniel 9:3

³I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

1 Corinthians 4:4

⁴For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.