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Job 9

Job 9:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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If he will
chaphets (Hebrew #2654)
properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
KJV usage: X any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.
Pronounce: khaw-fates'
Origin: a primitive root
contend
riyb (Hebrew #7378)
a primitive root; properly, to toss, i.e. grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e. hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend
KJV usage: adversary, chide, complain, contend, debate, X ever, X lay wait, plead, rebuke, strive, X thoroughly.
Pronounce: reeb
Origin: or ruwb {roob}
with him, he cannot answer
`anah (Hebrew #6030)
properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extens. to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce
KJV usage: give account, afflict (by mistake for 6031), (cause to, give) answer, bring low (by mistake for 6031), cry, hear, Leannoth, lift up, say, X scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also 1042, 1043.
Pronounce: aw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
him one
'echad (Hebrew #259)
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
KJV usage: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
Pronounce: ekh-awd'
Origin: a numeral from 258
of a thousand
'eleph (Hebrew #505)
hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
KJV usage: thousand.
Pronounce: eh'-lef
Origin: prop, the same as 504
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Cross References

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he will contend.
Job 9:20,32‑33• 20If I justify myself, my mouth would condemn me.{HR}I perfect! He would prove me perverse.
 32For [he is] not a man as I [that] I should answer him.{HR}Let us come together in judgment,
 33There is between us no arbiter,{HR}Who might lay his hand on us both. (Job 9:20,32‑33)
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Job 10:2• 2I will say to God, Condemn me not;{HR}Let me know why thou contendest with me, (Job 10:2)
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Job 23:3‑7• 3O that I knew where to find him!{HR}I would come unto his chair of state,
 4I would draw up the cause before him,{HR}And would fill my mouth with arguments;
 5I would know the words he would answer me,{HR}And understand what he would say to me.
 6Would he contend with me by main strength?{HR}Nay, but he would give heed to me.
 7There would a righteous one be pleading with him,{HR}And I should be forever quit of my judge. (Job 23:3‑7)
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Job 31:35‑37• 35O that One would hear me! Lo, my sign.{HR}Let Shaddai answer me,{HR}And mine adversary with the charge:
 36Would I not carry it on my shoulder?{HR}I would bind it as crowns on me.
 37The number of my steps I would tell him,{HR}As a prince would I go near to him. (Job 31:35‑37)
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Job 33:13• 13Why hast thou contended against him?{HR}For he answereth not of all his matters. (Job 33:13)
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Job 34:14‑15• 14If he should set his heart on himself —{HR}Gather to himself his spirit and his breath,
 15All flesh would expire together,{HR}And man return to dust. (Job 34:14‑15)
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Job 40:2• 2Is the censurer to correct with the Almighty?{HR}The reprover of God, let him answer it. (Job 40:2)
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Isa. 57:15‑16• 15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name [is] Holy, I dwell in the high and holy [place], with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
 16For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls [which] I have made. (Isa. 57:15‑16)
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Rom. 9:20• 20Nay rather, O man, who art thou that answerest against God? Shall the thing moulded say to him that moulded, Why madest thou me thus? (Rom. 9:20)
he cannot.
Psa. 19:12• 12Errors—who discerneth them?{HR}Cleanse thou me from secret [ones]. (Psa. 19:12)
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Psa. 40:12• 12For evils till there is no number have encompassed me;{HR}Mine iniquities have overtaken me, and I have not been able to see;{HR}They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath left me. (Psa. 40:12)
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1 John 1:8• 8If we say that we have no sin, we mislead ourselves, and the truth is not in us. (1 John 1:8)
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1 John 3:20• 20that if our heart condemn us, [it is] that God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. (1 John 3:20)

J. N. Darby Translation

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If he shall choose to strive with hima, he cannot answer hima one thing of a thousand.

JND Translation Notes

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i.e. God.

W. Kelly Translation

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If he desire to dispute with him,{HR}He cannot answer him one of a thousand: