Job 9:2

Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

In Context

1And Job made answer and said,

3If 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.

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Cross References

Job 4:17May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

Job 25:4How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

Job 32:2And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;

Job 34:5For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

Psalms 143:2Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

Matthew Henry on Job 9:2-14

Job's Reply to Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. 4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? 5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. 6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. 7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth… Read the whole commentary →

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