Job Chapter 9 verse 15 Holy Bible
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.
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Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me.
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Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.
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Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
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Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
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Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.
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Whom, though I were righteous, I answer not, For my judgment I make supplication.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer. Even perfect righteousness, so far as possible in a creature, would not enable a non to stand up in controversy with him who "charges his angels with folly" (Job 4:18); and, moreover, to such righteousness Job does not pretend (see Job 7:20, 21). But I would make supplication to my Judge; rather, to mine adversary (see the Revised Version). Prayer is the only rightful attitude of even the best man before his Maker - prayer for mercy, prayer for pardon prayer for grace, prayer for advance in holiness.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) Though I were righteous.--He now puts the alternative case: that he were actually righteous; yet even then supplication, and not assertion, would best become him.
