Job 37:20 “Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowe…”

Job 37:20

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Shall it be told him when I speake? or shall man speake when he shalbe destroyed?

Darby Translation

Shall it be told him if I would speak? if a man [so] say, surely he shall be swallowed up.

Young's Literal Translation

Is it declared to Him that I speak? If a man hath spoken, surely he is swallowed up.

Bible in Basic English

How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

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Cross references

“Shall it”

Psalm 139:4 Matthew 12:36 Matthew 12:37

Psalm 139:4 · BSB

Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.

Matthew 12:36 · BSB

But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.

Matthew 12:37 · BSB

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

“surely”

Job 6:3 Job 11:7 Job 11:8

Job 6:3 · BSB

For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas— no wonder my words have been rash.

Job 11:7 · BSB

Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?

Job 11:8 · BSB

They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.

21Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.

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