Job 9:2
Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.
Cross References
Job 4:17Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job 25:4Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?
Job 32:2And Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, was angry and was moved to indignation : now he was angry against Job, because he said he was just before God.
Job 34:5For Job hath said : I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment.
Psalms 143:2I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made supplication to the Lord.
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 →