World English Bible
"If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand."
— Job 9:3, World English Bible
“If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.”
“If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand. ”
“If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.”
“If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.”
“If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.”
“If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.”
Then Job answered,
"Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.
God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
He removes the mountains, and they don't know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.