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Job 9:16
Job 9:16 is verse 16 of Job chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.
King James Version
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
World English Bible
If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
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Job 9:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
14 How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?
15 For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
16 If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.
17 For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
18 He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 18:6In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.
Psalms 66:18If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
Psalms 66:19But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.
Psalms 66:20Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld from me His loving devotion!
Psalms 116:1I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice— my appeal for mercy.
Psalms 116:2Because He has inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.
Job 29:24If I smiled at them, they did not believe it; the light of my countenance was precious.
Exodus 6:9Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.
Judges 6:13“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
Psalms 126:1When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
Luke 24:41While they were still in disbelief because of their joy and amazement, He asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”
Acts 12:14When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed that she forgot to open the gate, but ran inside and announced, “Peter is standing at the gate!”
Acts 12:15“You are out of your mind,” they told her. But when she kept insisting it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”
Acts 12:16But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astounded.