Job 9:2
“Yes, I know all that! But how can anyone be right before God?
Free Bible 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 you wanted to argue with God, God could ask a thousand questions that no one could answer.
Cross References
Job 4:17‘Can anyone be right before God? Can anyone be pure before their Maker?
Job 25:4How can a human being be right before God? Can anyone born of woman be pure?
Job 32:2Then Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, grew angry. He was angry with Job for claiming he was right rather than God.
Job 34:5Job said, ‘I am innocent, and God has denied me justice.
Psalms 143:2Please don't place me, your servant, on trial, because nobody is innocent in your sight.
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 →