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Job 9:16
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KJ21
If I had called and He had answered me, yet would I not believe that He had hearkened unto my voice.
ASV
If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice.
AMP
“If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.
AMPC
If I called and He answered me, yet would I not believe that He listened to my voice.
BRG
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
CSB
If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe he would pay attention to what I said.
CSBA
If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe he would pay attention to what I said.
CEB
If I were to call and he answered me, I couldn’t believe that he heard my voice.
CJB
If I summoned him, and he answered me, I still can’t believe he would listen to my plea.
CEV
And if God came into court when I called him, he would not hear my case.
DARBY
If I had called, and he had answered me, I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice,—
DRA
And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.
ERV
Even if I called and he answered, I cannot believe he would listen to me.
EASY
He might agree to meet with me in court. But I do not believe that he would listen to me.
EHV
If I called and he responded to me, I do not believe that he would listen to my voice.
ESV
If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
ESVUK
If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
EXB
If I ·called to [summoned] him and he answered, I still don’t believe he would ·listen to me [L hear my voice].
GNV
If I cry, and he answer me, yet would I not believe, that he heard my voice.
GW
If I cried out and he answered me, I do not believe that he would listen to me.
GNT
Yet even then, if he lets me speak, I can't believe he would listen to me.
HCSB
If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would pay attention to what I said.
ICB
I might call to him. But even if he answered, I still would not believe he would listen to me.
ISV
“Were I to be summoned, and he were to answer me, I wouldn’t even believe that he was listening to what I have to say.
JUB
Who if I were to invoke him, and he answered me; yet I would not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
KJV
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
AKJV
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
LSB
If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was giving ear to my voice.
LEB
If I summon him, and he should answer me, I do not believe that he will listen to my voice—
TLB
And even if my prayers were answered, I could scarce believe that he had heard my cry.
MSG
“So how could I ever argue with him, construct a defense that would influence God? Even though I’m innocent I could never prove it; I can only throw myself on the Judge’s mercy. If I called on God and he himself answered me, then, and only then, would I believe that he’d heard me. As it is, he knocks me about from pillar to post, beating me up, black-and-blue, for no good reason. He won’t even let me catch my breath, piles bitterness upon bitterness. If it’s a question of who’s stronger, he wins, hands down! If it’s a question of justice, who’ll serve him the subpoena? Even though innocent, anything I say incriminates me; blameless as I am, my defense just makes me sound worse.
MEV
If I called, and He answered me, I would not believe that He had listened to my voice.
NOG
If I cried out and he answered me, I do not believe that he would listen to me.
NABRE
If I appealed to him and he answered me, I could not believe that he would listen to me;
NASB
If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.
NASB1995
“If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.
NCB
“Even if I summoned him and he responded, I do not believe that he would listen to what I said.
NCV
If I called to him and he answered, I still don’t believe he would listen to me.
NET
If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice—
NIRV
Suppose I called out to him and he answered. I don’t believe he’d listen to me.
NIV
Even if I summoned him and he responded, I do not believe he would give me a hearing.
NIVUK
Even if I summoned him and he responded, I do not believe he would give me a hearing.
NKJV
If I called and He answered me, I would not believe that He was listening to my voice.
NLV
If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.
NLT
And even if I summoned him and he responded, I’m not sure he would listen to me.
NRSVA
If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe that he would listen to my voice.
NRSVACE
If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe that he would listen to my voice.
NRSVCE
If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe that he would listen to my voice.
NRSVUE
If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe that he would listen to my voice.
OJB
If I had summoned, and He had responded to me, yet would I not believe that He had paid heed unto my kol (voice);
RGT
“If I cry and He answers me, I do not believe that He heard my voice.
RSV
If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
RSVCE
If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
TLV
Even if I called and He answered me, I would not believe that He would listen to my voice.
VOICE
But even if I were to call Him and He were to answer, I still could not believe that He would listen to my complaint.
WEB
If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
WYC
And (even) when he hath heard me inwardly calling him, I believe not, that he hath heard my voice.
YLT
Though I had called and He answereth me, I do not believe that He giveth ear [to] my voice.
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