Job 37:20

Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty

19Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness. 20Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up ? 21Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.

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Berean Standard Bible
Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up ?
American Standard Version (1901)
Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
Bible in Basic English
How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?
Free Bible Version
Should God be told that I want to speak? Anyone who wanted to would be destroyed!
King James (Authorized) Version
Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
Translation for Translators
Should I tell God that I want to speak to him? No, because if I did that, he might destroy me.
Unlocked Literal Bible
Should he be told that I wish to speak with him? Would a person wish to be swallowed up?
Noah Webster Bible
Shall it be told him that I speak? If a man shall speak, surely he will be swallowed up.
World English Bible
Will it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
Young's Literal Translation
Is it declared to Him that I speak? If a man hath spoken, surely he is swallowed up.