Job 40:3
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Then Job answered the LORD:

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Then Job replied to the LORD,

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Then Job answered the LORD and said:

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Then Job answered the LORD:

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Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

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Then Job answered the LORD and said:

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Then Job answered the LORD and said,

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Then Job answered the LORD and said,

NASB 1977
Then Job answered the LORD and said,

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Then Job answered Yahweh and said,

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Then Job replied to the LORD and said,

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Then Job answered the LORD:

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Then Job answered the LORD:

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Then Job answered Jehovah, and said,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Job answered and said to LORD JEHOVAH:And Job answered and said to the Lord,

Contemporary English Version
Job said to the LORD:

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Then Job answered the Lord, and said :

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Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

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Job answered the LORD,

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Then Job replied to the LORD. He said:

JPS Tanakh 1917
Then Job answered the LORD, and said:

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And Job answers YHWH and says:

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Then Job answered the LORD:

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Then Job answered the LORD and said:

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Then Job answered the LORD:

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Then Job answered the LORD:

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Then Job answered the LORD,

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Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

World English Bible
Then Job answered Yahweh,

Young's Literal Translation
And Job answereth Jehovah, and saith: --

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Context
Job Humbles Himself Before the LORD
2“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.” 3Then Job answered the LORD: 4“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.…

Cross References
Job 40:2
"Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer."

Job 40:4
"Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.

Job 42:7
After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.


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Verses 3, 4. - Then Job answered, the Lord, and said, Behold, I am vile; literally, I am light; i.e. I am of small account (see the Revised Version). It would be absurd for one so weak and contemptible to attempt to argue with the Almighty. What shall I answer thee? or, What should I answer thee! What should I say, if I were to attempt a reply? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth (see the comment on Job 21:5).

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Hebrew
Then Job
אִיּ֥וֹב (’î·yō·wḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 347: Job -- a patriarch

answered
וַיַּ֖עַן (way·ya·‘an)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6030: To answer, respond

the LORD:
יְהוָ֗ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


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