Job 9:2
Truly, I know that it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
In Context
3If he chooses to contend with him, he is not able to respond to him once out of a thousand times.
Cross References
Job 4:17Should man be justified in relation to God, or will a man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 25:4Is it right for man to compare himself to God, or to appear pure though he is born of woman?
Job 32:2And Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, was angry and indignant. But he was angry against Job because he described himself to be just in the presence of God.
Job 34:5For Job has said: “I am just, yet God has subverted my judgment.
Psalms 143:2My mercy and my refuge, my supporter and my deliverer, my protector and him in whom I have hoped: he subdues my people under me.
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 →