Job 9:16
Modern Translations
New International Version
Even if I summoned him and he responded, I do not believe he would give me a hearing.

New Living Translation
And even if I summoned him and he responded, I’m not sure he would listen to me.

English Standard Version
If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.

Berean Study Bible
If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.

New American Standard Bible
“If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.

NASB 1995
"If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.

NASB 1977
“If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.

Amplified Bible
“If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.

Christian Standard Bible
If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe he would pay attention to what I said.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would pay attention to what I said.

Contemporary English Version
And if God came into court when I called him, he would not hear my case.

Good News Translation
Yet even then, if he lets me speak, I can't believe he would listen to me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If I cried out and he answered me, I do not believe that he would listen to me.

International Standard Version
"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.

NET Bible
If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice--
Classic Translations
King James Bible
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

New King James Version
If I called and He answered me, I would not believe that He was listening to my voice.

King James 2000 Bible
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

New Heart English Bible
If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to 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.

American King James Version
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had listened to my voice.

American Standard Version
If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice.

A Faithful Version
If I had called and He had answered me, yet I would not believe that He had listened to my voice;

Darby Bible Translation
If I had called, and he had answered me, I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice, --

English Revised Version
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice.

Webster's Bible Translation
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet I would not believe that he had hearkened to my voice.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
If I cry, and he answere me, yet woulde I not beleeue, that he heard my voyce.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
If I had called vpon hym, and he had aunswered me, yet woulde I not beleue that he hearde my voyce:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
All be it that I call vpon him, and he heare me, yet am I not sure, yt he hath herde my voyce:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Though I had called and He answers me, I do not believe that He gives ear [to] my voice.

Young's Literal Translation
Though I had called and He answereth me, I do not believe that He giveth ear to my voice.

Smith's Literal Translation
If I called and he will answer me, I shall not believe that he will give ear to my voice.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And if he should listen to me when I call, I would not believe that he had heard my voice.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
If I called and he answered me, still I would not believe that he heard my voice

Lamsa Bible
If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I would not believe that he had hearkened to my voice.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
If I had called, and He had answered me; Yet would I not believe that He would hearken unto my voice--

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And if I should call and he should not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice.
















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