Job 9:3
If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
In Context
2Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?
Cross References
Job 9:20Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
Job 10:2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Job 31:35Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And [that I had] the indictment which mine adversary hath written!
Job 34:14If he set his heart upon himself, [If] he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
Job 40:2Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it.
Psalms 40:12For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed 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 →