Job 37:20

20 Should he be told that I want to speak? Would anyone ask to be swallowed up?

Job 37:20 in Other Translations

KJV
20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
ESV
20 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?
NLT
20 Should God be notified that I want to speak? Can people even speak when they are confused?
MSG
20 Do you think I'm dumb enough to challenge God? Wouldn't that just be asking for trouble?
CSB
20 Should He be told that I want to speak? Can a man speak when he is confused?

Job 37:20 In-Context

18 can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze?
19 “Tell us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.
20 Should he be told that I want to speak? Would anyone ask to be swallowed up?
21 Now no one can look at the sun, bright as it is in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.
22 Out of the north he comes in golden splendor; God comes in awesome majesty.
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